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"?

Oooh, so our HT was being a bit twatty by not explaining this to us. I get it.:)

I couldn't possibly comment. :)

I was standing behind a vision panel in a crowded corridor last Friday when people kept repeatedly bashing the door on me.

At least they were able to see me mouthing: 'are you fucking blind?'

echt I know what forward-planning meetings are because a former boss instituted them and other pointless work-creation schemes to terrorise us and disguise her fundamental fuckhandedness.

I wrote a really long description of her reign of terror before 'leaving the company by mutual arrangement' but I really should try to put it behind me

I hate it...am I already on this thread
"from now" much more sensible

OMG Lilo 'Reach out to'!!! I had completely forgotten that one!

"So if we reach out to x going forward, that will be within our gift to change. OK, lets get down to the next layer of granularity"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

Bettybat, have you seen office space? You'd love it :o

I once decided I needed to write he little book of management Crap. I must do that. Moving forward, I will diarise some time each week to really get the elephant eaten and lob it over the barbed wire fence.

She used to talk about the 'circle of trust' that 95 per cent of staff weren't in.

I hadn't seen Meet The Parents but when I had it didn't surprise me to learn that the stupid bitch had completely misunderstood the fact that the Robert De Niro character was psychotic and the joke was on him.

My former boss used to frequently use the phrase "now, nowucking , please take this in the spirit it is intended..." followed by a whole load of bullshit usually outlining all of my faults and mistakes which were actually his that he knew would piss me off, which is why he used that opener. Which he also knew pissed me off. In fact, just thinking about that phrase makes me all I'm surprised I didn't quit sooner tbh. He was all about diarising, and reverting and other such bollocks.

I hated that job and my twattish boss

ah yes, 'Wash it's own face'. I still don't really know what that means. I think it means pay for it's self.........

Mind you, I quite like a well placed 'with respect'

Am at work and have just used "going forward". However, also got "albeit" in there - do I win a prize?

I don't think it's even necessary to say 'in future' in that example. You don't set objectives for the past, do you?

I was puzzled too when everyone started saying 'revert' instead of 'reply'. Surely it doesn't mean the same thing at all?

StealthPolarBear YES! Brilliant film! The scene where they beat the shit out of the printer to "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster" is just inspired...When one of them runs back to it to beat it with his bare hands, and they drag him off....I was in tears, laughing so hard.

And the Family Guy version with Stewie and Brian is awesome

touching base (no thanks), period, ballpark figure (wtf does that mean), contect with, heads up (the ex uses this jsut on way giving you heads up, no need you have just told me you are on your way over)

not overly keen on some counselling ones, where are you in all of this sounds very wanky (but will have its place in a counselling session i am sure i shall use it)

See, I like 'going forward' and all the other managementy bollocks.

Really, I do.

Because, as an editor, I get paid to remove it from colleagues' writing and translate such witterings into plain English.

wanders off to diarise getting my ducks in a row and doing some operational interfacing

OK, think we need to watch that again tonight!
The boss character in the braces is fantastic too, the coffee slurping and the "I'm just going to go ahead and move your desk down to the basement"
"But I could see the squirrels. and they were married"

:o

I have to plead guilty to using "ballpark figure" (meaning a very rough estimate) in another active thread ...

Another one is "Show and Tell" for a demonstration or presentation. Takes us right back to primary school.

YANBU.

People use that phrase and others when they want to sound more authoritarian/knowledgable. I notice colleagues doing it when they haven't got a bloody clue.

I go back to work in September and will be struggling not to roll my eyes when these phrases are bandied about :-|

yanbu

can't stand it...

ditto 'diarise'

in fact I weep for plain English almost daily where I work

combined with rubbish spelling and grammar....gah!

I'm glad my boss is Polish, I don't get this crap from him.

I might start using it myself. Bullshit bingo might make meetings more interesting when I return to work.

may fall foul of not reading the whole thread here, someone else may have mentioned already, but what about 'socialise'?

Not or , but as in ' clinking, can you just socialise that output with the relevant stakeholders?

never heard that one - is it a social media/comms thing?

"we're ahead of the game", always during the retched team briefs!

"working smarter, not harder!", makes my teeth, gums, skins, hair all itch at once..

" Coach out of the company " , pile the pressure on so they decide to leave....

Oh yes you always have to 'touch base with' or 'coordinate with' or 'reach out to' someone, it would never do to just talk to them!