"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.

@IlFaitBeau

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.

Pop should only in my opinion be used for the following:

When eye make up makes your own eye colour stand out

Dizzy drinks.

@MiniPumpkin

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 can't stand "ping".

I don't reach out to anyone either. I've never encountered a colleague in a fast moving river so I've never needed to.

We don’t have PowerPoints anymore, it’s a “slide deck”… looks identical to power point but sounds cooler.

I think this thread has legs.

Oh thank fuck I'm self employed!

Calling it a work LOAD implies that it's a burden . A work STACK sounds like something you will get through. I understand it, that doesn't mean I agree with its use. It's as if they are trying to negate how hard their "underlings" are working

"Had sight of" as in "I've had sight of the yearly report...."

SEEN! What's wrong with SEEN?? Or READ? Gah.

@neverbeenskiing

"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.

I will always refuse to use "reach out to" when the long-used, perfectly acceptable "contact" is readily available.

Oh and yes to the deck! As in: Tombero, do you have time to work on the deck?

My father was in the merchant navy, now that was someone who worked on the deck, not me!

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads

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

kind of. Actually it originally meant an experiment that couldn't be done in reality... so you have to do it in theory. "To a scientist, a thought experiment is an argument that you can run through in your head, after which you understand what’s going on so well that there’s no need to do a real experiment, which is of course a great saving in time and money and prevents you from getting embarrassingly inconvenient results. Discworld takes a more practical view – there, a thought experiment is one that you can’t do and which wouldn’t work if you could. But the kind of thought experiment we have in mind is one that scientists carry out all the time, usually without realizing it; and you don’t need to do it, because the whole point is that it wouldn’t work. Many of the most important questions in science, and about our understanding of it, are not about how the universe actually is. They are about what would happen if the universe were different."

Pratchett, Terry; Stewart, Ian; Cohen, Jack. The Science Of Discworld (The Science of Discworld Series Book 1) (pp. 11-12). Ebury Publishing. Kindle Edition.

I also give us the passive-aggressive “as noted”, or worse “as previously noted”.

@itsmehere1

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

Why do I immediately think of Trump when I see 'shower' ?

But you can have a deck of cards, and I always assumed it was a reference back to having a pile of index cards with your speech / presentation written on it - so you would talk through your deck.

In the 80s I used to work in an office where the managers (men) used lots of this type of phrase. They stopped when a colleague and I printed bullshit bingo cards and handed them out at a department meeting.

One of the managers was doing a diploma on day release so we used to ask the next morning what the latest trendy phrase was.

We all got on well really though and everyone could see the funny side of the nonsense.

@Whatwouldnanado

I think this thread has legs.

@etulosba

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.

I think that every era has its jargon, many words/phrases we use now have their origens in WW1 and WW2 but because of social media they are shared far more widely.

When I talk to the guy I'm seeing about his day at work, he regularly tells me about the things he's "boxed off" (completed)
Absolute wank speak. I like him, but this makes me want to put the phone down on him.
Also, someone apparently "dialled in" to his meeting today. I appreciate it was probably zoom, but again: wank speak.

And
"What is the risk left on the table"
At which point I try hard not to actually look at the table.

Dear God, @CovidCanDoOne123, I'm with you.
The one I hate most of all is 'touch base'. XH used to use it, and he was a complete wanker and so is the phrase.

@NeedAHoliday2021

We don’t have PowerPoints anymore, it’s a “slide deck”… looks identical to power point but sounds cooler.

No, we always had slide decks, back from when we used slides. artofpresentations.com/what-is-a-slide-deck/

@Madmaxxy - I'm afraid I also thought sanitary pads...I really don't want to share what's on my pad.

20 years ago, I'm pretty sure it was a colleague using the term "outwith" that turn out to be the final straw. I handed in my notice.

I wasn't interested in blue sky thinking. I was not going to run anything up a flag pole, and I had no intention of touching base.

If it was a good day I would indeed have a bit of a think, see what my boss thought, and then come back to her with any new ideas. But that sounded too layman.

As to joining a group scrum...as opposed to having a scrum on my own which, tbf, sounds like fun!

@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.

You clearly never met the Deputy Head of the last school I worked in, he seemed to have written Cliches for Dummies, let's drop it into the toaster and sea what pops up, that was one of his favourites.

I’ll reach out and ensure we are aligned before I socialise this further as we need to ensure we are on the same page.

We need to revisit the deck and ensure the messaging is consistent across the board, particularly given the audience, it’s probably too granular in part.

I think we need to stay on point and ensure we don’t try and solve.

We need to build the foundations.

I could do this all night….

‘The deck’ 😡

[quote lborgia]@Madmaxxy - I'm afraid I also thought sanitary pads...I really don't want to share what's on my pad.

20 years ago, I'm pretty sure it was a colleague using the term "outwith" that turn out to be the final straw. I handed in my notice.

I wasn't interested in blue sky thinking. I was not going to run anything up a flag pole, and I had no intention of touching base.

If it was a good day I would indeed have a bit of a think, see what my boss thought, and then come back to her with any new ideas. But that sounded too layman.

As to joining a group scrum...as opposed to having a scrum on my own which, tbf, sounds like fun![/quote]
Outwith is perfectly correct Scots English word.