To be irritated by the phrase "going forward"

[somebloke123]

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

What happened to "in future"?

Going forward is dreadful. Time does actually only move forward so it's a totally pointless thing to say.

If I ever need to emphasise that such and such a thing will happen from right now and forever I use "forthwith". That soon sorts the men from the boys

"Let's run this up the flagpole" WTF?

Time does actually only move forward so it's a totally pointless thing to say.

I can't wait to use this argument margo

I've just realised I hate the phrase 'touching base' cos it's too much like 'touching cloth'.

I like to slip in a "notwithstanding" now and again, as well as the nice Scottish word "outwith".

going foward - these people shoud be shot slowly.

worse - a manager years ago said "we need to unzip the problem and get tooled up". He only said it once because we were all lying on the floor wheezing with laughter.

I confess, I sometimes use 'going forward' but I promise I've never done any blue sky thinking or run anything up a flagpole.

I haven't played bullshit bingo for yonks. Mind you I currently share an office with a sales manager who is a walking cliche generator. He definitely eats his own dog food and is always giving me a heads up about stuff 'heads up, it's Friday tomorrow'.

I HATE 'going forward'! I also hate 'look to'.

"We should look to providing bla bla bla." NO either, we should provide bla bla bla. Or consider providing bla bla bla. Or investigate providing bla bla bla. LOOK TO DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING!

ooh that was cathartic. lovely thread, thanks OP!

Lets revive some proper solid traditional language. I like to use nevertheless and albeit.

I used to work in print and design. I felt like throwing up on the (male) designers who would describe a design as an "abortion". Fuckwit wanky talk from pathetic little show offs.

Agree with hatred of future gazing, out of box, heads up etc. Though I did enjoy asking one bloke what his penetration was (market of course). He shifted uncomfortably.....

Gladbags - I agree and like your words. Also suggest: "talk", "go", "plan", "idea" and "remind" .....!

albeit is lovely. It's my life's dream to start a smallholding in North Wales rearing albeits for use in fusty publications.

You can use their wool for semi-colons, too.

yes albeit is a fave of mine.

YANBU, OP.

So I'm not the only one! Thank you for sharing!

Just thought of another one - 'let's unpack that'

We have 'overarching principles' in our work. And yes going forward is used a lot too. Grr
Thank feck I started my maternity leave today!
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YANBU on the whole OP although I confess to using it once or twice .

I love/hate management speak esp 'this doesn't comply with my critical timeline' and 'sky rocketing'. It's just nonsense, but good for an 'arf

YANBU

Now if we can just march in step, put all our ducks in a row and sing off the same hymn-sheet I'm sure we'll be able to go forward with this and create a vertical awareness of our evershifting circumstances.

somebloke :o at the 'very agressive timescale'. YANBU - I use 'in the future' too.

This thread is hilarious! Everyone posting has wit.

Not really a phrase per se but the latest thing for wanky politicians and managers to do (well, that I noticed before I escaped on ML) is punctuate their speeches with 'But hey!'. I fucking hate it. It's up there with jennie's 'Guys'.

Have you all seen Twenty Twelve, the v funny TV sitcom about the build-up to the Olympics, in the office of the "Olympics Deliverance Commission"? That is full of hilarious examples of this sort of wankspeak.

Jubilympics!

In my old job I used to fantasise about delivering a swift kick to anyone who said 'diarise'. And I was a temp PA so heard it about 17 times a day.

"We should have a meeting with the client, ask their PA to diarise it"

... and make sure we have all our partners and stakeholders on board...

When I worked for a small practice as a year out student one of the partners would often talk about a "window in his diary."

Proper baffled me that did!