"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.

I do have a favourite one from IT that I absolutely love though.

It's a 'picnic' problem. Or words to that effect

Other than that I'm another one who is very aware they were around, particularly in the NHS in my experience, over 30 years ago, never mind 20 years. And this was in non medical area where I can more understand the use of medical jargon.

for those who don't know it translates as
'Problem In Chair Not In Computer'

Yeah, I work in IT. And work stack is defo a thing. As is “t shirt size” and “planning poker”.

I can’t decide if your post is really pushing the envelope in the Mumsnet space or you’re just going for the low hanging fruit @CovidCanDoOne123.

I think we need to look under the bonnet of this whole thread and incentivise the stakeholders in this thread to conversate. Our analysis needs to be (as someone else round this ideas table said), at granular level. Let’s go forward together and really get our hands down the throat of this problem so that we can have a solution driven solution that will shine a light on what the fuckity fuck I’m trying to say.

@itsmehere1

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

That's an unpleasant sentence.

@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.

Why do companies and people in General alter or play word soup, so to speak ?

@Grilledaubergines

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

Sadly same bullshit then, just different words. I loathed it then and loathe it now. Working in silos is another piece of crap I hear a lot.

“We need to sharpen our pencils” - a favourite of a senior salesman re improving a commercial offer. He had a pretty bad temper and I used to imagine him sharpening pencils with mounting fury.

“What are the optics on that?” Meant to sound sophisticated, actually brings to mind spirits being served in a pub.

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

Not far enough. 30 years ago we were touching bases and painting ourselves into corners.

@MiladyBerserko

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

Totally not using feminist concepts of grooming.

OMFG, this one too!

Perhaps we can reach out and socialize the deck, if we can align, get our ducks in a row and your work stack isn't too big. Ping me an email and I'll make sure you don't do all the heavy lifting.

Oh I have sat round a meeting table more than once and been told we are having a scrum down! Reading your post has made me realise that someone has probably heard it being used properly but not realised what it meant and thought it was the new buzz word

I think it’s been used for a while as a rugby reference- getting together etc rather than a bastardisation of actual Scrum. Though lots of companies seem to say they do Scrum but change the words, accountabilities etc so as not to have to actually change very much.

@YouOKHun

I can’t decide if your post is really pushing the envelope in the Mumsnet space or you’re just going for the low hanging fruit *@CovidCanDoOne123*.

I think we need to look under the bonnet of this whole thread and incentivise the stakeholders in this thread to conversate. Our analysis needs to be (as someone else round this ideas table said), at granular level. Let’s go forward together and really get our hands down the throat of this problem so that we can have a solution driven solution that will shine a light on what the fuckity fuck I’m trying to say.

[quote Ilovemypyjamas2021]@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?

Yes what is this? 😂It keeps popping up on emails & meeting requests from PM’s in our company. Had never heard of it until about a month ago…[/quote]
The fact that you have not heard of this 50-year old term until a month ago doesn’t make you as smart as you think you are.

artofpresentations.com/what-is-a-slide-deck/

@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!

Surely most of them have come about as the result of a bet or a challenge. It's the sort of thing my DH would do too. He can't stand work BS.

Re the changing face of business bullshit, I’m a little sorry I never heard an earnest ‘blue sky thinking’. And did anyone really ever say ‘run it up the flagpole and see who salutes’? Amazing and appalling in equal measure.

Yeah and disseminate this crap on that hill you're going to die on whilst underpinning the dashboard.

@PoshPyjamas

Am I missing something re brainstorm

About 20 years ago brainstorm was briefly thought to be offensive to people with Epilepsy. Then the British Epilepsy Society basically said words to the effect of 'Nobody asked us' and 'Don't be daft'. At which point anyone who bothered to look a bit deeper into it resumed with using the original term.

I am sure some people just accepted that it was 'offensive' without questioning it though.

Some people started maintaining it was offensive far more than 20 years ago. I remember some complaining (on behalf of others not themselves) from the early 90s.

On checking with the epilepsy society, I was told that their magazine for people living with epilepsy was called Brainstorm and they had no problem with its use at all. I have used it and defended its usage ever since - although I still got told (whilst still working) that it was (definitely) offensive

@YouOKHun

I can’t decide if your post is really pushing the envelope in the Mumsnet space or you’re just going for the low hanging fruit *@CovidCanDoOne123*.

I think we need to look under the bonnet of this whole thread and incentivise the stakeholders in this thread to conversate. Our analysis needs to be (as someone else round this ideas table said), at granular level. Let’s go forward together and really get our hands down the throat of this problem so that we can have a solution driven solution that will shine a light on what the fuckity fuck I’m trying to say.

Well that just sounds obscene.

Work stack is from a management methodology- it was meant to be about prioritisation and work flows but has become "stuff to do"

Deck has been used in agencies for years and years but has now migrated client side

Scrum is an agile project management framework, as a PP has said. There are daily scrums (quick meetings) and someone seems to have de used all meetings can be scrums

I'm increasingly hearing "crawl-walk-run-fly" at work which just means start slowly and test as you go

I have not heard of this..... I may use it in a meeting tomorrow to confuse my colleagues

Couldn’t agree more, these stock phrases are so unoriginal.
So and so “ Welcomed a baby”
“ Reach out”
“ Ducks in a row”
What on earth does “ Get to the granular level” even mean?
Is it akin to “Rock bottom?”

@ClafoutisSurprise

Re the changing face of business bullshit, I’m a little sorry I never heard an earnest ‘blue sky thinking’. And did anyone really ever say ‘run it up the flagpole and see who salutes’? Amazing and appalling in equal measure.

Yep

heard both in the 90s except what I heard was '... flagpole and see if it flies'

We have a flipchart in the office, covered in nonsense corporate phrases. It's known as the bullsh*t board, and every member of my team works hard to get at least one of the phrases in every report or presentation we do. Extra kudos is achieved if no-one in the audience questions it.

A small selection of favourites includes actionable takeaways, hot-button issues, co-synthesis(e), strategic compass, burning platform, bleeding edge, strategic congruence and lower-tier vortex.

[quote MiniMaxi]@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.[/quote]
Or 'takeaways'.

I’m so glad I’m not alone:

We can’t talk, we reach out.

We can’t look into detail, we get into the granularity, or down in the weeds, or under the bonnet or (my personal least favourite) under the kimono.

We don’t solve problems, we look at the art of the possible.

And every day another little part of me slowly dies!