"This Reads"

[wart57]

These new buzz-words are de-synergizing my shifted paradigm, making it difficult to recognize any opportunities to think outside the box and download information.

[JackofDiamonds]

These new buzz-words are de-synergizing my shifted paradigm, making it difficult to recognize any opportunities to think outside the box and download information.

[Popeye_Card]

"Turning knobs" is a new one that is going around here. In reference to shifting spend around to make budgets.

Also I am supposed to be reading a new book on organizational [expletive]. From what I have read thus far, it just keeps repeating that the best performing companies do [buzzword]. Over and over again, in slightly different ways. It is awful. And furthermore, we have scheduled 1 hour mandatory meetings, book club style, where we are supposed to discuss what we can learn and apply. First one is today. Woot?

Quit talking and let's just get some [expletive] work done.

[Arthur Dent]

I don't understand "This reads" at all even as annoying corporate speak. What is it supposed to mean? Sounds like a sentence fragment. You could say "This reads as like the utterings of a two year-old," or something but not just "this reads". This reads what?

[Arthur Dent]

Also I am supposed to be reading a new book on organizational [expletive]. From what I have read thus far, it just keeps repeating that the best performing companies do [buzzword]. Over and over again, in slightly different ways. It is awful. And furthermore, we have scheduled 1 hour mandatory meetings, book club style, where we are supposed to discuss what we can learn and apply. First one is today. Woot?

Is this the kind of company where you can voice your mind and criticize the uselessness of the book?

[Popeye_Card]

Also I am supposed to be reading a new book on organizational [expletive]. From what I have read thus far, it just keeps repeating that the best performing companies do [buzzword]. Over and over again, in slightly different ways. It is awful. And furthermore, we have scheduled 1 hour mandatory meetings, book club style, where we are supposed to discuss what we can learn and apply. First one is today. Woot?

Is this the kind of company where you can voice your mind and criticize the uselessness of the book?

Well this is the brainchild of my manager, with me being new to the group. So I will probably bite my tongue. Though two of the other supervisors in on the discussions are buddies of mine with similar low-BS tolerance levels. It could get interesting.

[lukethedrifter]

I believe you should take "this reads" and adorn it a bit. Maybe "Thus it was written:"


also, thrill, I think if you're downloading them it's a sexual thing.

[ghostrunner]

So essentially instead of saying, "See below:" to forward someone else's message they've made up some dumb nonsense.

It's so weird how idiosyncratic phrases take off at companies even if they don't make any sense or have any value.

Where I work, everyone wants you to "download" them on what's going on, as in, they want you to fill them in on what you know about a particular situation.

What the [expletive] is that [expletive]? First off, if someone is telling you the information, they are uploading it to you, second, that's [expletive] dumb. Just ask the person what they know. Don't ask them to download you. It's stupid as hell and yet, dozens of people here have started saying it. I especially groan when new people start using it.

Oh god. That's like the cousin of saying "I don't have the bandwidth to take that on." Awful.

[JL21]

I've been using the word "incarnation" way too much lately in reference to versions of designs. Because apparently "version" isn't good enough. "The initial incarnation of the design...", "the third incarnation of the invitation had...", etc...

The first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem.

[ghostrunner]

I've been using the word "incarnation" way too much lately in reference to versions of designs. Because apparently "version" isn't good enough. "The initial incarnation of the design...", "the third incarnation of the invitation had...", etc...

The first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem.

I don't know, that just seems like a colorful way of saying something. You haven't actually twisted the meaning or normal usage of the word. For example I could see a writer using "incarnation" in a short story, but not "leverage" as a verb.