Business speak
 

At the office where I pass the time betwixt 9 and 5.30 I hear loads of amusing business speak. Today I have already heard:

a) a colleague speaking on the phone saying, "Let's lay down some chat"
b) some other colleagues going to a meeting, one suggested he would fetch some coffees from Starbucks and an american got all excitable and suggested that they all go and they could do a "walk and talk"

So orgers as an expereiment - listen out to your colleagues then post up amusing business speak!

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errr, dont think it will work here, last thing i hear people talking about was whether we had any tetrakistriphenylphosphinepalladium for a Heck reaction.

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Sounds like playing bull$hit bingo.

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yep. we call them w@nkwords....:D

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The salesman who sits behind me says "I was going to say" and "as you say" before almost every sentence that comes out of his mouth when speaking to customers - not strictly just business speak but blooming annoying!!

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"Touching base". Makes me want to stab people.

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I have to use it sometimes to get people to take me seriously at work - it seems if you're not spouting the garbage everyone assumes you don't know what you're talking about ](*,).

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Apparently we have a lot of silo's in the building that need to be broken open, whatever that means. We hear it at every dept. meeting.

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This thread is "not on my RADAR", although I could be testiculating.

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Can we park that for the moment please...