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

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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?

Sorry folks, the use of z in words like organize and realize is quite acceptable in UK english
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

Just thought I would run that up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes.

When I first heard we didn't have enough "bandwidth" to do something I thought it meant we had a computer problem rather than that they couldn't be bothered.

You all need to exercise a little calm downerisation!

This will out me to anyone on my team....but I'm in tech and they are all guys so I'll take the risk.... (waves to the guy on the team most likely to read mumsnet!)

My todo list for next week includes "socialise aspirational strategy for XXXX with key stakeholders"

And I wrote that entry myself

I knew a woman who wanted a partner who would ‘pedastalize’ her. I don’t know if she found one.

@JoeGrundyWasMyRoleModel

Sorry folks, the use of z in words like organize and realize is quite acceptable in UK english en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

Just thought I would run that up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes.

I don't think it's the z that people are complaining about, so much as the attempts to verb what was a verb to start with, by adding 'ize' on the end.

The verb in my case, is To Burgle. One is burgled. Not burglarized.

When lockdown began DH and I both went from working abroad regularly to working at home 100%. I've never really heard him in work mode aside from the odd tail end of a conversation, so had no idea he used phrases like "lets stick a pin in it" and "lets circle back to that" til I overheard his early-morning team calls.

Reader, I killed him.

I think it's fine, I'm a software developer too though. As someone else said, it's generally a bad thing to do, when you're jumping to conclusions, trying to narrow down on a solution too quickly, when you don't really understand the problem. Or design a system based on what went before, instead of what people really need. In the context of what you were talking about, it fits perfectly, so I can understand why he used it but it is jargon, not the correct domain specific language 😁

Two others that do my head in and DH uses (at work happily, not with me):-

• “What’s the exam question here?” like “exam” adds some precision

• “it’s a bit more nuanced” - an assumption of cleverness or subtlety that other people will have missed.

His clients haven’t murdered him yet though.

I'm enjoying all these examples of unacceptable business speak. Thank you for reaching out and sharing. Going forward I hope to cascade this feedback in a lessons learned exercise.

Come on guys it’s just the way they roll 🤔

Capacity is my most hated word at work.

“Does anyone have capacity to take this on?”
“Yes I have capacity this afternoon”
Me: 😬😬😬

I love the mythologised ex — I’m sure he was godlike.
But if someone wanted to ‘open the kimono’ I’d call the police.

Thanks for cascading all this information, everyone.

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but we've been out for the morning and my husbands just said "unfortunately, as soon as we get in, I'm gonna have to jump on the laptop straight away"

My reply was "don't you think that might break it?"

I am a web / software developer and if anyone said that to me I’d kick them in the shin.