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re: Can we action this?

Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:03 am to
Posted by TexasTiger89
Houston, TX
Member since Feb 2005
26983 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:03 am to
This thread is cracking me up. Also hits close to home.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
11756 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:39 am to
Anyone that speaks in corporate lingo is a bullshitter.

Fact.
Posted by DarkDrifter
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2011
5908 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:47 am to
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synergy


I want to do physical harm to people that say this to me..
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
74565 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:51 am to
I see I’m not the only one who has to sit though a Monday morning manager’s meeting.
Posted by SillyGoosePond
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2026
11 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:53 am to
Many of the corporate lingo words are nonsense that are said by counts who want to sound smart.

What sucks is when they ruin a word that isn't all that bad. I have used actionable for a decade because the number of stupid ideas people give. It's a nice way of saying "you might be right but you can't do shite to change that so quit wasting everyone's time".
This post was edited on 8/17/26 at 11:54 am
Posted by I Like Cheeze
Member since Dec 2024
91 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:53 am to
Can't you just reply to them "don't talk like a retard"
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
74565 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:57 am to
quote:

I dropped “Kerfluffle” in a C Suite meeting and the CEO’s Chief of Staff (his fricking secretary - who doesn’t like me) interrupted the conversation to state that she didn’t appreciate me making light of the situation with “made up words.”

I just stopped and stared at her while five or six people began Googling it on their laptops. Someone read the definition out loud and it fit the discussion perfectly.

Somehow, and this still baffles me, I got counseled on making the Chief of Staff look bad. fricking corporate losers.


So she made a kerfuffle over your use of the word while being too dumb to know what she was doing.
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
2748 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 12:05 pm to
Corporate world is not real.

When you are deep in it, the place morphs you into it in such a way that it makes sense.

After many years, that bs fades. Only when you leave it, do you begin to truly understand it’s non sense.

The language (action this or that). A world unto itself.

The put on’s by corp leaders where real world people have emotions, thinking and behaviors. They are Not machines.

The 10% yoy projections where real world goes up & down

Not real. Hang in there. You are normal!
Posted by Naked Bootleg
Premium Plus® Member
Member since Jul 2021
3857 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 12:07 pm to
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God i hate corporate lingo


have you tried unlocking your synergies?
Posted by clamdip
Rocky Mountain High
Member since Sep 2004
22056 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 12:10 pm to
Y'all make fun of action items, but we've all been in meetings where the person running it does a piss-poor job of assigning, follow-up, dates, etc. Then a month later you're back in the same meeting and nothing has been done and everybody's pointing fingers at each other.
Posted by Pfft
Member since Jul 2014
5170 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 12:37 pm to
Can we get a Tiger Droppings mission statement?
Posted by Sams Crow
Idaho
Member since Apr 2026
459 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 12:58 pm to
Sticker on Costco plastic food tray: "This item not ovenable".
Forget everything you know, nouns are the new verbs.
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
39220 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 1:05 pm to
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Alignment is a popular one lately as well


It has infected us. Ive told employees if you cannot speak to me like a human being do not talk to mr at all
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