Touch base, as in "Let's touch base on this tomorrow." Says Bill G.: "I don't want to touch anyone's base. It sounds as if it would lead to a sexual harassment lawsuit."

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Try copying the whole URL and pasting it in internet explorer....clicking does not work....

Hmm.. interesting..

Found that I use many of these buzz-words myself! If this is going to be an "issue", then maybe "going forward", I should reduce using these.

My favourite corporate buzz words - in a layoff announcement:

".. they will be allowed to pursue other opportunities", or "they will be transitioning to other roles outside the company"..

A great list - funny and sad at the same time.

In the work environment, people are becoming more and more indirect, non-committing and "politically correct", and hence all these velvet sounding buzzwords.

You are not considered a "team player" if you are not always "going forward", focussing on the "bottom line" and "raising issues" !

It is not right anymore to call a problem a "problem" - it must be a "challenge" or an "issue".

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"Mah deah, there is much more money to be made in the destruction of civilization than in building it up."

-- Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind"

Yikes! I am guilty of using a few of them too. Heh!

Touch base and Hit the ground running - Both physically undesirable and risky propositions!

There is no "I" in "team - yeah but there is an 'M" and and "E"! Yeah, that was a good one.

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The Cynic

Interesting and funny.


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