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?

I asked Dh about 'granularity'. He said it's been used at work for years. I'm glad to see he's never brought that nuspeak home. I love my DH.

We certainly do cascade information.

We also have bandwidth (though to be fair, about 70% of the time, they really are talking about computer network bandwidth, which is a perfectly legitimate use of the term.) Iteration should only be used when describing things like for loops and while loops, in my opinion.

I was proofreading a document last week. I deliberately changed all the US spellings to UK spellings (I also had to change some complete misspellings - how come people don't have the courtesy to run it through a spellchecker before handing it over?) I had to ask what a couple of things meant. One was ridealong, which apparently means job shadowing.

I use granularity all the time, it's not a pseudo-word in IT by any stretch.
Cascade is a method of software development, I also use that all the time. I don't think you can "cascade" something (i.e. information, which is rather disseminated). I think it's a non-transitive verb.

You certainly can cascade information down from management to each layer below - according to my employer, anyway.

Yes, in my last role, at a meeting with consultants, one of them told me earnestly that I could reach out to her. Ugh. I didn't.

Can you cascade upwards? Or is that against nature?

Wtf cares? We all understand what's meant and it is a simple concise way of asking

I've never heard this expression . If I were told to "reach out" to someone in an office context I wouldn't have had a clue what was meant.

It is not a simple and concise way of asking. "Phaedra please phone Joe Bloggs"is simple and concise. "Phaedra reach out to Joe Bloggs"

I'm sorry, what on earth are you on about? Is he dangling from a ledge on the 7th floor?

I don't think "going forward" is too awful. It's just "now moving on" (usually after a horrendous balls-up)

I had a boss that would put 'quotation' marks in random 'places' in every single 'email' he sent. He would punctuate his 'conversations' in the same 'way'
How I didn't beat him to death with a hole punch I'll 'never' know

Often when DH takes work calls I snigger in the background, he does a lot of "driving through" and even "ideation" fgs.

Phaedra exactly, going forward is code :) It means "We all know there were major issues with the previous team, but we're not going to talk about that."

Lady we escalate information upwards and cascade information downwards hope this helps we also escalate problems to managers.

Thelovelyboots my managers certainly believe you can cascade information as they are always earnestly finishing emails with please ensure this information is cascaded to all staff !

I work with someone who does this - or rather, someone who does this has been foisted on us.

Good job we have already broken up, as I clicked on the 'cunt' song in a thread last night and I now have six weeks to get it out of my head before I see her again and start singing it...

I suppose I could understand the use of "cascade" if you were going to relay information verbally/informally, but otherwise it implies some limitation on technology that isn't there. That said, in all cases "disseminate" seems better (or even, "please tell people about this").

I do feel uncomfortable with reaching out though. Usually I hear it on here when someone is advised to reach out to friends and family, for emotional support, so I'm a bit startled when I hear it used at the end of a call " thanks for reaching out to me" when I only called to find out when we were going to be paid!

I saw the Microsoft memo laying off thousands of people and that was so littered with corporate business speak I had no idea what it was trying to say. I was surprised to see it began " hi there" though...

Normally"cascade" means "can you email everyone you think might be interested". But yeah, not counting senior management who are supposed to already know whatever it is - although you don't "escalate" to them, that's for bad things. With senior management, you "share vital knowledge".

Lavenderhoney I had a call once which ended "Thank you so much for reaching out to take advantage of what we're happy to offer you" which made me feel like some kind of terrible pervert.

the current phrase where I work is "customer proposition" i think it means service/product. there was a job advertised this week as proposition manager! we all put a very different slant on that title.

greenfolder interesting nick ;) I like "proposition manager", I reckon every woman could do with one of them.

The one which always makes me laugh is "officer with responsibility for antisocial behavior". I'm not sure if that's to discourage or encourage it!

Autocorrect! It's called "behaviour"!

'customer proposition manager' should be replaced with 'pimp supremo'

If someone used granularity I'd think they were talking about sugar...

The latest where I work is lean in
As in 'we just need to all lean in on this' which basically translates as stop worrying it won't work and give it a go.

It's all Sheryl Sandbergs fault.

We don't'lean in ' but we do buy in to new initiatives we also have to flag things up to managers if we have any concerns.

We don't'lean in ' but we do buy in to new initiatives we also have to flag things up to managers if we have any concerns.