To be irritated by the phrase "going forward"

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.. as in "these are our objectives going forward".

What happened to "in future"?

Yanbu

yanbu. Fortunately now I am a SAHM I never have to hear it.

YANBU. Of all the pointless management verbiage that's seeped into common use, I think that's the one that grates on me the most.

That, and 'tasked with'.

Drives me barmy :)

I am doing low paid but very enjoyable work now especially so I don't have to hear or spout this sort of crap.

YANBU

Those fools are also big fans of 'blue sky thinking' whilst 'pushing an envelope' after having 'stepped up to the plate'.

hate it too ... along with "reach out to" , and "thanks for sharing"... ok in a church environment, but in business? just makes me cringe.

Ooooh but what I really hate is the word sexy being used in the most unsexy, non sexy contexts.

'Here's the sexy bit . . . . ' and they'll show you a flipping pie chart or something.

A pie maybe, but a pie chart of projected wankery??

DIE.

I had an argument with DH about this. He thinks it's a legitimate phrase to use at work, I think it's crap. 'going forward' how else are they going to go? Backwards? Sideways?

drives me mental and the sexy word too in that context.
I also can't stand the expression "crack on" aaargh!!

YANBU, it's crap "Boardroom Speak" as in "try thinking out of the box" I wasn't in a frigging box in the first place! twit!

I think referring to stuff you don't want to do as "not mission-critical" as the most wank expression, but "going forward" is crap too.... Witch, try using "going sideways" and "going backwards" to your husband, see if you can cure him!

The most irritating phrase that trends just now is "That awkward moment when..."

Does my head in.

YAB a bit u about "going forward" though. It's not on my list of annoying phrases.

I thought of another one, "Touching base."

Ugh!

I work in a place that loves this kind of crap.

A few years ago the key phrase was "crunchy pricing", it used to make my teeth itch!

Nowadays they like to use "moving forward" and send group emails addressed to "Guys".

"You should connect with John"

......or I could just phone him

Yanbu

YANBU.

Just want to give you a Heads Up...
What? Do you mean you want to tell me something? Or is your Head Up your arse?

YANBU

I did quite enjoy the time I was instructed to do something "on the cuff" though...I e-mailed back to enquire whether that was the same as "off the fly"

"Are you winning?" Errr, didn't know it was a competition.

here are a few favoured in my company...

you should engage with -- why not just speak with
Sync up with (Am I a fucking computer!)

What is the double click on that... xyz -- and now we are all mice?!

can you tell me what the tic toc is for the plan.. erm.. no I bloody cannot, I am not a clock. FFS!

We used to play bullshit bingo in meetings (well me and a few others who can't stand the bullshit) and sit there in silent hysterics with a puce face at some of the crap that people came out with. It made much fun out of shite meetings.

At a meeting a technology rep asked me if my clients were 'early adopters'.

As we both knew that nearly all my clients are women I wondered if he was talking about child adoption and what that had to do with mobile phones.

When he tittered and explained v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y I said: 'Oh, you mean people who queue all night outside the Apple store for the latest gadget? Why didn't you say that and no, they're middle-aged mums, not geeks.'

YANBU, but you are soooo out of date, we don't go forward or even look forward at my work, we "future gaze".

"Let's just do some future gazing here" - err, let's not.

Also, "it's in our gift to change that" - do you mean "we can change that"?

YAsoooooNBU.
The latest ones from my bullshit bingo:
"Let's unpack x" - i.e. "let's take a look at x"
"we need to approach this with smart thinking" = "I am dimly aware that saying 'increase revenue by working more hours' would probably result in bloodshed, but this is a boardroom way of saying the same"
"eat our own dog food" = use our own design. Incredibly, I neither buy nor eat dog food.
Blue sky thinking is especially ironic when hailstones are pelting at the window.
I think the tic toc bit would make me murderous, or at least make me want to give them a Tic Tac.

Someone in a meeting at my work said that something was planned to be completed "on a very aggressive timeline".

I think he meant "soon".