To hate anyone who says "Tasked with"?

[ipanemagirl]

I hate it as much as I hate them when they say we should do this going forward.
It just sounds so stupid it irritates me so much. It's so pompous.

Blue Sky thinking.

Connected thinking.

Grrr.

Agree! Think 'tasked' is military-speak and sounds ridiculous in business meetings. And 'going foward' is completely unnecessary, I can't think of any examples where a company would want to go backwards!

We're all going to hell in a handcart aren't we?

I love people say that!

sorry people who say that....

Who says tasked with? Can you put it in a sentence for me? It doesn't seem to have caught on in Asia and I want to be the first to use it at work.

No don't spread the disease! Quarantine to the UK with it's terrible love of jargon and crapspeak!

"The Minister for Justice has been tasked with examining his nob end for bits of flint and whatever. He is expected to report back in a long time at a cost of about 4 trillion pounds. Good For Him. Jolly good bloke. Went to Westminster. Clever Chap."

synergy

'make sure we're on the same page' . I think I dislike it because it means 'make sure you change what you're doing to what I'm doing'.

However, I like 'singing from the same hymn sheet' although it means the same.

hate the same page. don't mind the hymn sheet too much either.

Hate "tasked with" the most by far. It's like bigging up one's own part and bigging up the part of the tasker. It's so blokey and the user is imo got to be a twunt or you wouldn't ever use it.

'throwing his hat into the ring' a phrase only ever used for political leadership elections, but used EVERY 5 BLOODY MINUTES during leadership elections

"gifted"

Bill Gates has 'gifted' $1 billion to his vaccination charity.

Can't abide it! since when did 'gift' become a verb?

Oh I'd forgotten gited I blame the yanks....
the turning of nouns into verbs it can be so wrong.

gifted
keyboard problems...

Ugh.

I used to have a boss who would say - "catinboots, can you action that??"

Prick

ie - when asking me to do something!

yy 'action' is just a ridiculous way to say 'do and 'gifted' is an unnecessary way of saying 'gave'.

Using such words is like shouting 'I am an ignorant twatty-nob!' isn't it? It's just unasseppabil (supernanny's favourite word).

I used to forget that phrase and say 'its all going to shit in a handbasket'

Let's 'leverage' our connections there and then, 'going forward', let's 'touch base' and see what we've come up with.

I love the idea of someone saying "catinboots, can you action that??" not the action that bit which is a crime but the catinboots bit!

It sounds almost a bit pervy... sorry Cat, but it does.

TrinityRhino fyi.
LOL at shit

"Going to hell in a handbasket", "going to hell in a handcart", "going to hell in a handbag" or '"sending something to hell in a handbasket" &c. are variations on an American alliterative locution of unclear origin, which describes a situation headed for disaster without effort or in great haste.

'run it up the flag pole and see who salutes it'.....

'thinking outside the box'....

on the gift theme I HATE 're-gifting' (passing on stuff that you think is tat more like....)

YANBU

Love this one: Let's put it in the seed tray and see if the budgie pecks it.

An old boss of mine, never asked if we could just 'do' something -she always asked if we 'had the capacity' and could we do it PDQ!.

I asked her (genuinely) what she meant (I didn't have a clue)and she was so embarrased at having to explain that it meant 'pretty damn quick' that she never ever said it again.