To hate this phrase a manager at work is using

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Cross pollination.

He's started saying it and writing it all the time. For example, 'it is important team A and team B are coming together at this stage to cross fertilise/pollinate knowledge and learning'.

It feels like manager buzz word jargon having gone wrong. I hate it. Feels inappropriate in a work context.

AIBU?

It feels like manager buzz word

I like that you identified it as a "buzz" word in the context of pollination

"Going forward, I need someone to perform a deep dive and drill down into cross pollination and then we can all circle back and run it up the flag pole and see who salutes."

resignation letters written in heads

Bleurgh! It just sounds like dickhead-speak.

Oh god, I'm cringing for him.

‘So we don’t ‘boil the ocean’’ was a buzz phrase all middle management seemed to use for a few months. I cringed every time.

It died out after a while so I’m sure the cross pollination will too.

I'm so glad I don't have to bother with meetings any more. I occasionally overhear zoom meetings my colleague is having (my desk is right beside his office door), and I thank my lucky stars it's him and not me.

Is he David Brent?

@MakkaPakkas

Ask him if you can run an idea up the flag pole and see who salutes it to change the language to ideas orgy. Perhaps the ideas orgy will get the spunk from team one into team 2 and produce a beautiful pregnancy

🤣🤣

Ughhh that’s some wankery of the highest order 😂😂

Spider wanking sounds like a misreading of my favourite Dutch word, for a person who is obsessed with the minute details - literally translated as ant-fucker.

Mierenneuker, I think it’s spelled.

That's really funny.

Oh goodness..that irritating 😠

@TheKeatingFive

I don’t know why this in particular would bother you

Because it is idiotic?

Just reply in kind , introduce lots more horticultural phrases to work talk

bearing fruit
going to seed
Needs some pruning
green shoots
Harvesting the results
weeding out the surplus
pest control
feeling sluggish
fruitful meeting
fertile ground for growth
muddy waters

With luck your colleagues will catch on and find lots more.

Our deputy manger tried that phrase...it was met by a work colleague asking the question..."sorry, but since when have we started employing bees?? Either tell us properly what you want from us or do it yourself".

All management nonsense speak stopped that day.

This thread has made me spill my cup of tea its so funny

We have a WhatsApp group in our team dedicated to Bullshit Bingo. You don’t post who has said things, just the phrase.

@MeridasMum

I used to work for a guy who, when he didn't want to talk about a subject in detail or at a granular level said "I don't want to get into any spider wanking"

Idiot

This made me chuckle! I wonder how I can use this phrase in every day life 🤣🤣🤣

@MeridasMum

I used to work for a guy who, when he didn't want to talk about a subject in detail or at a granular level said "I don't want to get into any spider wanking"

Idiot

I dunno - of all the management guff I've come across in my career, I quite like that one...

cross fertilise? that'll cost the organisation a lot in maternity pay and cover

Oh god. Maybe you should reach out to him to cascade the knowledge on how cringeworthy this shite is.

Depends which lens you are using tbf

Ew. I hate it when someone refers to the male or female part of a nut and bolt.

oh god is this phrase back/still around? i heard it 20 years ago and thought yuk then
always made me think of a mad buzzy bee with his willy out trying to shag my computer

Tell him to go and pollinate himself!