OT: Business-speak
07-22-09, 12:31 PM
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My job used to include supervising people who wrote technical reports for our clients. I worked very hard with my staff people to get them to write using simple words and short sentences. I took the approach that if you needed to use complicated terms you probably didn't fully understand the concept yourself. I still think that's true.
Guess what happened? The jargon lovers were able to convince our home office manager that they were smart. I used to marvel at their ability to make beautiful presentations that contained absolutely no meat. None. That was the first company that I thought was too big to fail which actually did.
Guess what happened? The jargon lovers were able to convince our home office manager that they were smart. I used to marvel at their ability to make beautiful presentations that contained absolutely no meat. None. That was the first company that I thought was too big to fail which actually did.
07-22-09, 12:34 PM
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07-22-09, 07:39 PM
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Business/cycling cross over.
In describing a woman I was talking with during a feed stop on a ride, I said that she was dressed in "full business kit". Seemed to strike a chord with the guys I was with.
This should not be confused with a "full Cleveland".
In describing a woman I was talking with during a feed stop on a ride, I said that she was dressed in "full business kit". Seemed to strike a chord with the guys I was with.
This should not be confused with a "full Cleveland".
07-24-09, 04:28 PM
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EXCELLENT!
Man, you really said a mouthful, or not.
True Story; many years ago, working for a mid-size company, part of a large company...
We got a new company president. Mr. New Company President wrote all of us underlings a nice one page memo to acquaint us with him.
I'm standing their reading this one-pager. I read it the first time. Thinking that I must have not been paying attention, I read it a second time, this time a bit more carefully.
Then, I asked one of my co-workers if our new company President just took one entire page, to in effect say nothing.
My co-worker agreed.
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Man, you really said a mouthful, or not.
True Story; many years ago, working for a mid-size company, part of a large company...
We got a new company president. Mr. New Company President wrote all of us underlings a nice one page memo to acquaint us with him.
I'm standing their reading this one-pager. I read it the first time. Thinking that I must have not been paying attention, I read it a second time, this time a bit more carefully.
Then, I asked one of my co-workers if our new company President just took one entire page, to in effect say nothing.
My co-worker agreed.
Jeff, still fat
07-24-09, 09:33 PM
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EXCELLENT!
Man, you really said a mouthful, or not.
True Story; many years ago, working for a mid-size company, part of a large company...
We got a new company president. Mr. New Company President wrote all of us underlings a nice one page memo to acquaint us with him.
I'm standing their reading this one-pager. I read it the first time. Thinking that I must have not been paying attention, I read it a second time, this time a bit more carefully.
Then, I asked one of my co-workers if our new company President just took one entire page, to in effect say nothing.
My co-worker agreed.
Jeff, still fat
Man, you really said a mouthful, or not.
True Story; many years ago, working for a mid-size company, part of a large company...
We got a new company president. Mr. New Company President wrote all of us underlings a nice one page memo to acquaint us with him.
I'm standing their reading this one-pager. I read it the first time. Thinking that I must have not been paying attention, I read it a second time, this time a bit more carefully.
Then, I asked one of my co-workers if our new company President just took one entire page, to in effect say nothing.
My co-worker agreed.
Jeff, still fat
"In order to redress certain span of control anomalies, "John Doe" has been promoted to Supervisor, blah, blah, blah."
Translation? The department had gotten larger, and was being split into two, each with it's own supervisor. In order to redress certain span of control anomalies indeed.
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07-27-09, 06:55 PM
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