To start divorce proceedings because my "D"H said this?

[IckyPop]

My "D"H just said to me, in all seriousness and with no hint of irony, "I don't normally try to solutionize, but....."
I didn't let him finish his sentence before asking him WTF is solutionize? He is in a technical profession and when interrogated about his verbal crime against humanity, he said it does actually get used at work.
He doesn't normally come out with corporate bullshit so this came right out of the blue.
I told him I could never take anything he said seriously again and that I was going to solutionize my aching back by taking my cup of tea back to bed.
Should I LTB?

Maybe we could all workshop it, and apply some blue sky thinking out of the box until we're cooking with gas ?

Your going to "take a rain check" on him than?..

Has he ‘reached out‘ to you to apologise yet?

I had a manager once who tried but failed management speak, my favourite was when he said we were stuck in a vicious triangle.

My bete noire is:

"I want to share [this news/idea] with you."

Can't you just tell me!

I work in software development and solutionise is something we say all the time. I don't know what else you would say. There isn't a word for 'quantify the problem and design various solutions to it and weigh up the cost, risk and impact of all of them' and that's quite a wordy thing to have to repeat.

@Tombero

Has he ‘reached out‘ to you to apologise yet?

I had a manager once who tried but failed management speak, my favourite was when he said we were stuck in a vicious triangle.

No he hasn't! He did try to smother me with a pillow when I asked him if he would go to the shops to solutionize the lack of lunch

DH uses “solutions not problems” whenever I’m moaning about something 🙈

File it away with 'gifting', 'parenting' and all the other nouns that have been screwed into verbs.

On of my 'favourite' bits of corporate gobbledygook was Let's drop it in the toaster and see what pops up, I worked with a Deputy Head who was well-known for his hideous use of English.

@Jennifer2r

I work in software development and solutionise is something we say all the time. I don't know what else you would say. There isn't a word for 'quantify the problem and design various solutions to it and weigh up the cost, risk and impact of all of them' and that's quite a wordy thing to have to repeat.

Find a solution or an answer? Or fix it? Is it necessary to explain the detail of the process that comes before the solution is found?

How does it make you feel? ina patronising tone was my husband's go-to phrase. He's now my ex of course!

@LadyCatStark

DH uses “solutions not problems” whenever I’m moaning about something 🙈

I've had that at work and when we come up with solutions they're just met with "no that wouldn't work"

Finding a solution is not the same as solutionising sorry maybe send DH to me once you've divorced and we'll live happily ever after.

@keeprocking

File it away with 'gifting', 'parenting' and all the other nouns that have been screwed into verbs. On of my 'favourite' bits of corporate gobbledygook was Let's drop it in the toaster and see what pops up, I worked with a Deputy Head who was well-known for his hideous use of English.

I'm going to have to try and inserting the toaster phrase

@Jennifer2r

Finding a solution is not the same as solutionising sorry maybe send DH to me once you've divorced and we'll live happily ever after.

Deal

So um OP do you think your aching back will be solutionized by the very neat and reasonably priced foot rest that PP has very helpfully posted a link to?

In which case DH may have indirectly solutionized after all.

@Toilenstripes

Definitely LTB. That’s like “diarise”, which makes me angry. 😬

I found out the other week it's called verbing. Taking a perfectly acceptable noun and weirding it out. Breakfasting. Just no. And if you also have a 14 year old in your house, I'm guessing everything and everyone is 'vibing' at yours too.

I've heard "the problem is we need a solution" used before. It felt like the person had mo idea what as going on but didnt want to be left out

@Ellie56

So um OP do you think your aching back will be solutionized by the very neat and reasonably priced foot rest that PP has very helpfully posted a link to?

In which case DH may have indirectly solutionized after all.

I have quantified the problem. I'm in the process of designing various solutions to it and weighing up the cost, risk and impact of all of them. I will debrief by COB (or whenever I get round to it)

My DH asked me to reach out to a builder yesterday, but as I used to work with a guy who would regularly encourage us to 'listen to the organisation's mood music' it didn't really register.

@LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett

My DH asked me to reach out to a builder yesterday, but as I used to work with a guy who would regularly encourage us to 'listen to the organisation's mood music' it didn't really register.

I would be ok with reaching out to a builder. Depending on the builder in question

YABU, he’s talking at home, we should be allowed to take liberties with language at home!

Is it any different to people who use words like ‘mentionitis’, which women use to describe men?

This isn't my DH so not said to me at home (thank god). When my boss passes something over to me, maybe an email has come in and she passes it to me, she'll say she's "throwing it over to fence" to me. Makes me so angry.

Find a solution or an answer? Or fix it? Is it necessary to explain the detail of the process that comes before the solution is found?

In tech yes, because there are lots of potential solutions so there is a period of tossing ideas around.

IME “solutionise” is usually only used negatively now, to describe focusing too early on a solution before you fully understand the problem/situation. It’s a classic tech meeting power move to block a colleague’s idea with “I think we’ve jumped into solutionising here, let’s take a step back and....”

My last company was very big on “ideation”

I give you 'Fly it past the big boys'. From a manager at work when presented with an idea - meaning he'd speak to senior team about it.

@IckyPop

You could offer to carve out his tongue so he can't come out with any more shite like that?
That's gold 🤣😂🤣😂