Already today I have heard 'Investment in people' and 'Working smarter'.
What classic work cliches have you stumbled acrosss today?
2006-10-12 23:21:19 · 33 answers · asked by Chris O 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
'Let's touch base' F**k off
2006-10-12 23:24:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We the willing
Led by the unknowing
Are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much
With so little
For so long
We are now qualified to do everything with nothing.
2006-10-12 23:31:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jenni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run that idea by me again and lets see if you come up with a better idea.
Be pro-active if you can not change someones mind change your way of thinking.
It takes one man to run a company to many to make it work.
Too many chiefs and not enough indians.
2006-10-12 23:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am getting sick of the word solution, everthing is a bloody solution, and my bosses favourite is devolved authority.
Why don't we have plain english anymore.
And I would like to torture the person who invented the mission statement.
2006-10-12 23:35:50 · answer #4 · answered by sling it bird 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work with one other person, this morning I asked them if they would like to be Team Leader
2006-10-12 23:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by stephen m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggested something to my boss this morning (about using flexitime), and he said - no word of a lie - "Well, I'm gonna run that idea up a flagpole and see how many boxes it ticks on the way"!!!! (t*sser!!)
2006-10-12 23:25:38 · answer #6 · answered by PETER G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So long as you get 3 new pieces of information from a meeting, then it has been worthwhile.
Oh GO AWAY!!!! it was a boring meeting, and a waste of time!!!!
2006-10-12 23:31:05 · answer #7 · answered by Smiler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My boss told me to "Go the Extra mile"
We play buzzword bingo in our office its class!
2006-10-12 23:23:02 · answer #8 · answered by Nigi-magic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
end of play. Hate that phrase! Just say by the end of the day
2006-10-12 23:30:28 · answer #9 · answered by RB 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None, the rest of my team are out so I am all on my lonesome feeling bored.
2006-10-12 23:30:21 · answer #10 · answered by Kayteeee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard 2 , you dont have to be mad to work here but it helps and same **** different day
2006-10-12 23:25:26 · answer #11 · answered by Jimmy H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋