The Top 20 Most Annoying Buzzwords and Phrases in the Workplace

[Sully]

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[chrisf]

"on a go forward basis"

 

[Hisoyaki]

In the french corporate world, they have this phrase "valeur ajoutee"

(literal translation "added value" ).

 

[Haggis]

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I'm going to "green light" that comment.

 

[OldSolduer]

Investment opportunity.

 

[dimsum]

"Sirs et al".

"Thanks" to some folks recently returned from deployment, BLUF is now a common term too.  It took the rest of us at least a day to figure out what that meant. 

 

[Old EO Tech]

Regarding Sir or Ma'am, using either, or their plurals, as nouns: "The Sir said..."

Even worse, we had a female Tpt officer here at 1VP, and the infantry guys were always calling her "The Ma'am" like it was a proper noun :-/

 

[daftandbarmy]

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The same guys who talk about 'Quad Slides' a lot, right?  ;D