Reaching out

[Icimoi]

I'm dealing with someone at work who never says that he'll contact someone, speak to them, phone them, email them etc - he always says he will reach out to them, or asks them to reach out to him. When he does it with me I find it hard to keep a straight face. I've noticed it occasionally with other people. Where on earth has this nonsense come from?

Ah, so it was sandbox, not sandpit. I still don't quite understand.

Angel tulips - I don't know if it's anger I feel. More sort of disdain and lofty sniffiness that someone uses language like that.

Angel so says reach out at work.

I have an e mail which has been sat in my inbox for about a week asking me to reach out to somebody. I am silently protesting by not replying to it. I reach out to no-one me.

Arrrgghhhh I had an email responding to a simple request for some footage with:
"Thank you SO much for reaching out to us. We are super thrilled to be helpful to you"

Ugh.

I was once invited to a blue sky meeting... What it actually was: a way of smoothing the new HR's bosses idea to get shift workers to work more hours... He was rather pissed off by the militant arsey shift workers who didn't fucking want to blue sky extra work.

I hate being asked to "inbox" someone. I can email them, sure. Inbox them, not so much.

Does anyone else have drilling down? It's what you have to do with the data when you want more granularity.
We have "covering off" as well - it's what used to be called covering, as in "I think Bluestocking has covered off all the potential risks in this strategy going forward".

Someone British "reached out" to me the other day - I was a bit taken aback.

This reminds me of a conversation which I had with a consultant from Accenture once . I think she told me to reach out to her twice, and if I needed more help, to reach up to her boss .

We went through a phase at work when everyone was quoting 'cardinal sin number 1' all the time. Every e mail, presentation, meeting was focused on ensuring we didn't make 'cardinal sin number 1'. Sadly I missed the meeting when it was determined what 'cardinal sin number 1' actually was, so I spent about a year totally clueless as to what was happening. It says it all really that I managed to perform my job perfectly well without ever finding out what the rest of the entire business had spent an entire year trying so hard to avoid.

Oh god, I'm going back to work next week after a couple of years self employed. You lot have reminded me what I'm letting myself in for.

Cantbelievemyeyes - don't worry, reach out to us if you need help.

I used to work for someone who frequently said he would go through the 'darta' (data)

That was just one of many things that made me want to push him off a cliff.

Reaching out is on the way out in my organisation,...it is now all about "leaning in"

Do you say 'dayta'? I do too. But I always remember it's plural.

LadyWithLapdog dayta is UK pronunciation, darta American. I have a violent hatred for "darta" too but people use it a lot unfortunately

Didn't finish my thought on "locus" (there's surprising) I use "I have no locus to intervene" because I used to say "This is nothing to do with me" and got accused of a silo mentality...

"Iteration" is another one. "Can we check the iteration here?" This is a bit confusing because it means two things which aren't the same. It can be either "Nothing is working, is it due to the fact we're on an earlier version of the [computer] program?" or "Have we approached this bigger issue in a dodgy way by missing out shit we should have done?"

I used to have a boss who in our weekly meetings would look round the table and bark out "Status updates, everyone". I was always tempted to say something like "I'm a bit hungry, and I think my period is starting".

Wtf cares?? Me, because I've never liked or respected pretentious wankers who try to disguise their basic ineptitudes in professional settings by spouting what they obviously believe to be fashionable, but are in fact inane and pointless with no advantage over the real English, buzzwords and phrases.

When someone says they're going to "reach out," it always makes me think of and then I want to start singing supportively. Because hey, I am a team player.

I love "I have no locus to intervene", shockinglybad - I will try and use it today!

I must say "going forward" often in the context of developing the strategic narrative which gets framed for whichever audience I am writing for. Sometimes I have to go into more granularity than others..

I have never once reached out - nor played in the sandpit! Sounds fun, tho!

TheannamoLeelu I just got an email with RUSH in the title :-)

Does anyone know what RUSH means yet or does it actually mean, you know, what it says? :)

I have been asked to provide granularity recently and I had to look it up after, whilst nodding sagely at the time. Details. I see:)

Someone asked me the other day if we could "draw down some additional resource" which basically meant her section was a bit short of cash and wanted to make it my section's problem. It made me think of Shooting Stars and Vic and Bob cooing to The Dove From Above.

The latest in our office is "band width" as in "I just don't have the band width to deal with this". Drives me mad. Just say you've got too much on and don't have time to do anything else. Grrr.

Our local Council has to find £40 million savings. So that'd be spending cuts then. (Sutton, shame on you.)

Does anybody else cascade information to each other.?