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?

Sounds like a load of wanky bollocks

He sounds like a nob. I hate all of the wanky management phrases - deep dive is the one that springs to mind atm. Fuck. Off.

People who use 'action' as a verb are horrific.

Those who use this management speak almost always seem to be shit, and are seldom taken seriously.

Imagine how many of these Dominic Cummings uses.

Today I got "touching base" several times but ANY of this shite gets my goat bloody blue sky thinking, brainstorming the whole bunch of shite!

It's the type of bollocks my relative & his me me wife talk. IRL they're useless tossers!

Fecking hilarious so long as it hurts no one .

Dear lord! Buzz words like this give me the ick!
I used to work in underwriting and the managers there would constantly refer to a risky underwriting decision as "going a bit caviller"

We have ‘low hanging fruit’……..so basically the easy to sort out customers that everyone loves. Just call them that then.

Yanbu. Awful. I listen to a lot of radio interviews and there are two types - the experts who know their stuff and want to communicate succinctly, and the people who are just stringing together a load of meaningless buzzwords which they think make them sound clever.

I’d just ask him, Are you sure cross-pollination is legal in the workplace these days….?? A very wide-open option/decision/instruction…??

Buzz words like this give me the ick!

“Give me the ick” is equally unpleasant.

YANBU - in my experience men who talk like this are covering up their own inadequacy - just ask him if he will explain exactly what he means, pointedly and in front of other staff, in a meeting for example - I guarantee that will shut him up and make him think a bit harder before spouting drivel

ffsakes can people be real , communicate honestly!

^Say 'but if we cross pollinate too wildly we will produce sterile offspring" or "Wind pollination is best in this circumstance, spreading gametes far and wide" or "We need to use an insect vector to cross pollinate specifically in this instance" and nod wisely. Out idiot them.^

Many years ago I had a colleague who shared the same sense of humour as me and we used to challenge each other to insert idiotic, meaningless phrases similar to those above into our contributions at very boring "trendy management speak" filled meetings. It made the meetings much more interesting.

You need one of these

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

My pathetic excuse of a boss used to shout "Oi sluts come in to my office" she used to think it was hilarious, thankfully she eventually left. She used to expect high standards from us but was such a waste of space herself.

What a wanky thing to say !

Sounds like he has read to many “how to be a better manager” books written by Americans

That is hilarious, what a tosser 🤣🤣🤣

Not heard this one before, Jesus they get worse don’t they 😂

Let's be perfectly clear about this.......
It is what it is.

The most stunning I heard: “This puppy will never land. It has too much political dust on it.” Delivered straight face, by a pitching vendor. Mind boggling. I had to write it down in my notepad -too scared that I’d forget such nonsense.

@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

This.

Or, get the whole team up on their feet, wandering about during the work day. When called on it, tell the manager that you are all flitting from flower to flower, like good little bees, cross-pollinating.

My favourite one that I heard recently was someone explaining why a task had to be done by saying "the genesis of the ask is...". Made me laugh out load (on mute). Needless to say it was an American who spouted this drivel?