"Work stack" - FFS

[CovidCanDoOne123]

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.

@LunaAndHerMoonDragons

I used to think lived experience sounded wanky but it plays an important role for people who are ND or have a disability/illness or who experience racism or discrimination, it's about not imposing the view of someone who hasn't directly experienced that thing onto those who have. An Autistic person has lived experience of Autism, whereas my experience of Autism comes from the perspective of a parent & carer. I have lived experience of my chronic illness, my doctors have experience in treating my illness, but they don't have the experience of living with it.

Lol ended up on a new page @CowboyFromHell

Yes!! What is the difference between lived experience and mere experience - I'd love someone to tell me. How is it possible to have experience of something without being alive at the time?

This one is used all the time in my line of work. Basically if you have lived experience of something you have experienced it personally, rather than in the context of your work. So I have a lot of professional experience working with survivors of Domestic Abuse, but I haven't lived through DA myself. If I had "lived experience" of Domestic Abuse it would mean I had experienced it personally.

It sounds wanky but it's sort of useful in some sectors.

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but scrum is an agile word so if it's been used, it's likely whatever you're working on is part of a project where agile project management methodology is being used.

I hate touch base and reach out. What's wrong with talk to and contact? We've been using those for years.

@BoyGirlDogCatMouseCheez

I read the whole thread to see if anyone was going to speak to speaking to, but no one spoke to it yet, so I can speak to that.

Reading this makes me so glad I'm a nurse, don't have to put up with any of this utter wank.
Saying that though I did get invited to a safeguarding huddle the other week, I mentioned it in my weekly team meeting and it was rightfully mocked by all.

High quality.

Everything is high quality. It's the new outstanding.

YANBU - 'going forward' gives me rage.

@HouseIsOnFire

My boss has told me it is "only my bandwidth holding me back"

... I have no idea what that means or what to do with such helpful feedback!

Means your workload work stack basically.

@somethingischasingme

My husband started making them up at work and seeing which ones took off. His favourite is 'it's a dinosaurs picnic' which is now used to describe when things are going wrong!

@somethingischasingme

This is glorious

@seven7sisters

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

You need to take the little bags of sugar you get in e.g. costa with you to the next meeting.

Phone call: 'Can you do this incredibly detailed and time consuming thing (at zero notice and isn't as important as everything you're already doing) right now?'

'I'm absolutely stacked with x, y and z, and a, b through t are all RAG rated items on the FBMC at 6pm. Didnt help that there was an on the fly hour long Y7TT huddle in the Fishbowl. Can you ping it over in an email & explain it like I'm five and I'll revert by close of play tomorrow?'

(In head: no, I fucking can't, I've got too much to do that I'll be in shit for if it isn't sorted by the bloody long meeting after hours tonight, I did not want to be dragged into another unplanned meeting this morning in the all glass building that makes me feel like I'm a aspidistra in a greenhouse and if you get off the phone I won't be compelled to tell you to fuck off. I will also forget what you want once I finally get some sleep tonight, so you'd best email so I still know what you want tomorrow when I'll do it before I go home).

It can have its advantages at times.

Oh thank you! Well as they're responsible for that, I guess I'll continue to ignore that oh so helpful feedback!

@TheMoth

High quality.

Everything is high quality. It's the new outstanding.

Nah, everything is "world-leading". Even when it's very clearly not.

I read the whole thread to see if anyone was going to speak to speaking to, but no one spoke to it yet, so I can speak to that

I think I might actually ask my colleagues what's wrong with the word "about"

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

Not heard that one, but I’ve experienced the same thing as a ‘take out’. What was your ‘take out’ from that session? As far as I’m concerned, a take out was picking up a pizza when I lived in the States.

Isn't it just a PP presentation? When did it become a deck? And why?

This is probably coming from the software. I was tired of my bland-looking slideshows and looking for a new template on the most up-to-date version of PPTX. It gave various suggestions, referring to them as decks. I didn’t clock it the first couple of times I heard it on a dull away-day, and wondered irrationally why tarot cards kept warranting a mention. To me, they will always be slideshows.

But …

As someone who writes articles and funding bids, and who regularly marks essays, unpacking or unpicking the meaning of something does make sense to me. Those words do the job effectively as people instantly know what is meant by them. ‘Set out’, ‘lay out’, ‘unfold’ mean the same thing, but I think the former are clearer and serve that purpose better.

'Going forward' is the one that makes me homicidal.

Reading this makes me so glad I'm a nurse, don't have to put up with any of this utter wank.

No. You just have to deal with menstruators, birth-giving parents and cervix havers. And I thought it couldn't get any worse than 'blue sky thinking ...'

@TheMoth

High quality.

Everything is high quality. It's the new outstanding.

Or often just 'quality' used as an adjective!

Where i used to work they used the phrase "lay and egg on it" in terms of a project deliverable. I'd never heard it before - or since - until 2 weeks ago when one of the project team has started using it on a regular basis!!

A “slide deck” is nothing new. My dad used to bore us with our holiday photos in a slide deck in the 1970s before PowerPoint, before PCs.*

There were also cassette decks and record decks back in those ancient times!

I knew someone who started at a workplace and was essentially useless, hardly did any work and was basically dragging the team down. One of the other team members confronted the manager, who said "it's going to be fine, I've discussed it with him and he's now mentally adjusted to the fact that he works here now. The issue was that he hadn't previously adjusted to the fact that he works here."

I mean, my goodness. I would expect that's what the recruitment process was for!!!

At my workplace it's all about spaces and pieces lately. "We're doing a listening piece in the finance space." It's come from one particular director and I want to murder him.

@ArmWrestlingWithChasNDave

At my workplace it's all about spaces and pieces lately. "We're doing a listening piece in the finance space." It's come from one particular director and I want to murder him.

Agreed. Spaces and pieces can totally fuck off. And they can take 'bandwidth' with them.

everything is world leading

Or 'world class'. Or, if a certain Prime Minister is using the term, 'world beating'.

Along with spaces and pieces we have constant references to place or place-based outcomes.

There’s also a lot of my colleagues who are so focused on linkages, synergies and connections across areas of work that they never seem to focus on the actual work areas.

I work in IT and 'stack' generally refers to the technologies / languages / programmes etc you use to build or maintain a product or project.

I have noticed more and words crossing over from IT / digital industries into 'lay industries' over the last ten years or so. My experience tells me this is normally based on some senior individual (with no IT knowledge or experience whatsoever) going to a conference or a webinar or something, learning a new word and deciding that's what they call a thing now.

See also: Agile methodologies increasingly being used in non-software project management.

All you need is a growth mindset…. kill me now! You mean do more work in less time!