"Work stack" - FFS

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So in addition to the likes of 'reach out', 'align'; 'ducks in a row', 'going forward' etc etc etc...we now have 'work stack' instead of workload.

Losing the will to live.

Ps no AIBU. The use of 'work stack' is unreasonable.

YANBU.

It sounds like a synonym for ‘bandwidth’. Or at least it would be, if you were a computer not a person.

Is it a geeky reference at all? My DH is an electronics engineer and labels his to do list as a "stack", apparently it makes him chuckle as its a reference to building software or something (I think?! It was a while ago that I asked why)

I’ve never heard this, but ‘mental load’ irrationally pisses me off.

I think the worst I have heard yet is “let’s idea shower” I mean wtaf?

Oh how I want to go back 20 years to a time with none of this bollocks.

Or forward 20 years so I can retire and not listen to it.

Stack is an IT word - has it come from there op?

You know the only way to deal with it is to find someone else in your office/team who feels the same way and play bullshit bingo.

Today I got: “thought experiment”. I’ve also got “idea shower”, and the new inexplicable tendency to use the word “pop”.

“Pop it in an email”
“Something to make the ideas pop”.

Kill me please.

I think idea shower is a new way of saying brain storm - that phrase was thought to be un PC. Not saying the alternatives are better.

I hate the ducks in a row.

I refuse to use all of these phrases. I'll never get promoted (at my current company) but I will retain my soul.

I used to work somewhere where they referred to your workload as 'what you have on your pad' i.e. 'have you got too much on your pad'?' 'whats on your pad today'? Drove me nuts!! YANBU

I had a boss that was all about creating time for blue sky thinking

@Grilledaubergines

Or forward 20 years so I can retire and not listen to it.

I hear you!!!

"I do not have the mental bandwidth to deal with this" said by my manager.

@Topbird29

I think idea shower is a new way of saying brain storm - that phrase was thought to be un PC. Not saying the alternatives are better.

Am I missing something re brainstorm?

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

Stack is an IT word - has it come from there op?

Possibly...not an IT business though.

Actually, come to think of it, I did hear it first from a digital type person...but now seems to be the norm all around the organisation (global corp).

Now if I say "work load" I feel very middle aged and out of touch

@TulipsGarden

I refuse to use all of these phrases. I'll never get promoted (at my current company) but I will retain my soul.

Love this. Truly.

"Touch bases". Stop touching people's bases!

"Push back" is a favourite for my boss and I still don't know what it means.

Brainstorm is thought by some to be un-PC because it brings to mind a mental health condition or autistic meltdown (as in an actual storm in your brain).

The rest... Well, I just refuse to use them. I'm very literal (autistic) and find it really l, genuinely confusing and hard to understand what someone means when there's too much jargon.

@Mistressofnone it means “say no”!

I detest “learnings”. What were your learnings from the training course?

No you muppets! You don’t learn a learning. You learn a lesson.

Ugh, twice in a meeting today someone said "get to a granular level" of something

@Bessica1970

I’ve never heard this, but ‘mental load’ irrationally pisses me off.

I thought 'mental load' was a pretty apt description! Especially with regards to mothers in any type of family unit. I.e. a simple way of expressing the one who remembers the P.E kit for Tueday, the reading book for Friday and the trip to the museum next month.

Surely I can't be alone in thinking this?