"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.

BTW I love the mug TheVolturi

Deck is used a lot by m&a types, who are invariably male.

I have never used work stack, although my current stack is high and in danger of toppling.

I think mental load has become overused on mumsnet. It seems to be one of those things that people add to a list to justify what they actually do (along with "life admin")

Reading these with horror.

We tend to get this bollocks in teaching, after the business world tires of them.

I remember being cascaded over, about 20 years ago.

@OzziePopPop

I have ducks (real ones, around 20 or so) living in my back garden. I’ve tried all sorts to get them ‘in a row’. Best I can do is in a line, following each other and that involved a handful of their favourite split peas. Off topic maybe but just how does one get their ducks in a row, are mine faulty?

Most of these make me want to bang my head on my desk. Perhaps it’s best I go to bed early and dream for an early retirement.

@wellitoldyouso

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

See my manager just cracks open an energy drink and announces he's going for a smoke That usually means "I cannot deal with you lot any more" He walked in one day at 7.55am and had opened a red bull by 8.03am. I won the bet that day

@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!

My version of “dinosaur’s picnic” (which I LOVE!) is “Dutch breakfast” to mean a mess. Eg “oo he’s made a complete Dutch breakfast” of that. A mess. A mistake. A wrong choice. So named after the Dutch nation’s mistaken idea that cheese is an acceptable breakfast choice. I have yet to be challenged in it! 😂

FIFO or LIFO?

v. important to know.....

Yes, but now we also have to 'socialise' ideas/concepts.

Totally not using feminist concepts of grooming.

@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!

I am sitting here laughing at this thread!

Can I contribute ecosystem - for something which isn't "eco" or anything to do with nature at all.

@QuinkWashable

FIFO or LIFO?

v. important to know.....

That’s very old, I learned that about 25 years ago (showing my age) before the days of being a Scrum Master 😜

LOL at this thread. Recently promoted to senior position I’ve been saying the likes of ‘going forward’ and if you can ‘ping me an email/invite’ oh lord 🤣 although I like ‘work stack’ as in my sector that really is a good description as the workloads really are stacked !

I think mental load has become overused on mumsnet. It seems to be one of those things that people add to a list to justify what they actually do (along with "life admin

Yes rather than managementspeakbollox they are non-work-bollox

@Grilledaubergines

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

no the bollocks was just different

And I refuse to "ping" anyone an email. I bet I have said it though (mutters at self darkly)

I saw a meme some years ago which describe FIFO as Fit In or Fuck Off.

Or did you all know that one anyway?.......

@SpiderinaWingMirror

Deck. Isn't it just a PP presentation? When did it become a deck? And why? And why the fuck is everything super instead of very? "I've been super busy prepping the slide deck" Huh?

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.

@ChicCroissant I used to looove DTDD. Was it really 30 years ago! Might try and find a few episodes to see how well it's aged.

@QuinkWashable It’s been a while since I learned, but in my mind a stack is LIFO by definition - something FIFO is a queue surely?

@Grilledaubergines 20 years ago there was plenty. DH called it wank word bingo. I remember ‘blue sky thinking’

And yes, there was nonsense 20 years ago. That was about when people started saying the "tech space" (or any space) when they meant sector.

“Thought experiment” comes from theoretical physics, and has been in use for decades. It basically means to think through a problem.

A scrum isn’t a meeting, it’s a framework for project delivery. It might look like a meeting (or a series of meetings) though!

"Reach out" still gives me the rage, even though it's become so commonplace now. I will never not be irritated by it, no matter how many times I hear it. "Can you reach out to Helen from HR and..." No!!! Why?? I will happily call her, or I will email her, or I will walk across the corridor and have a chat with her, but unless she's dangling from a fucking window ledge or something why would I need to "reach out"?? Ugh.