Most hated phrases & management speak

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GeneralZod

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The CEO of a large Irish company was interviewed on the radio last week. He repeated about 5 times that he was "bottoming out" the cause of a large financial loss to the company. This really made me cringe.

Others:

"Going forward"

"I hear what you're saying but" (my boss says this a lot)

"10,000 foot view"
 
"Going forward" is actually useful enough.

The Irish Times had a good radio ad packed with this stuff - maxing out face time with clients and all that good stuff ;).

Its only really annoying when people are consciously throwing it in to be seen to do it, to sound more important, or to talk down to people, & theres no better fun that cutting through the bull with a blunt translation/recap of what they're trying to say.
 
" Let's run it up the flag pole and see who salutes "
 
Going forward - I HATE that one.
On the same page.
Singing from the same hymn sheet.

And COB (close of business). Is it too demanding to actually type out "close of business" instead of COB?!!!
 
there's no I in team (when they are earning so much more than you, have their own lovely office etc etc)
 
"Pull your finger out".....never liked to ask from where!! A female manager used to use this & I always thoght it sounded horrible.
 
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