Business speak

[Grant66]

only if we have some blue sky thinking.

erm well the last thing I heard just 5 mins ago was "I P.R.`d him but the guys rectum is full and he`s totally impacted so forget the microlax enema and go for the phosphate"

"It's a business decision". Used all the time when basically someone doesn't want to make a decision themselves and is putting the onus back on the business so when it hits the fan they ain't to blame. Got be honest I use it all the time

Didn't get time to write this gem the other day, "Let's rub some funk on it" - one of my colleagues when referring to a news/pr item that needed jazzed up a bit.

I cross out archaisms in other lawyers' drafting - pet hates are 'of even date herewith' and 'the day and year first hereinbefore written' - what's wrong with 'dated with today's date'. And 'In the event that' -what's wrong with 'if'????

Uki - have you come across John Duke yet in Nationwide BS? He went to Nationwide... he used to be my boss, he used that 'business decision' all the time for precisely the reason you say.

The normal 'touching base / blue sky' phrases crop up occasionally, but working in an engineering department we tend to use more 'colourful' language.

We use a lot of TLA's.

That would be Three Letter Abreviations to the uninformed. However, some four letter codes have sprung up aswell - here are the most popular...

FRO... F*&^ Right Off

FIO... F*&^ It Off

RTFM... Read the manual

JFDI... Just Do It

BTAT... Brew Time Any Time


RTFM once made it into a draft document about product labelling sent out to other business units. It was questioned...

My old boss spoke management bullsh1t far more fluently than he could speak English. I've never known anyone that could talk for so long without actually saying anything.

But then he was a graduate of the Seagull Management school...

Fly in
Flap around
**** on everything
F**k off

Originally Posted by gajjii

....although I could be testiculating.

Ah... waving one's arms around whilst talking bollix

I'll run that up the flagpole and salute it

Originally Posted by Ed

I cross out archaisms in other lawyers' drafting - pet hates are 'of even date herewith' and 'the day and year first hereinbefore written' - what's wrong with 'dated with today's date'. And 'In the event that' -what's wrong with 'if'????

Uki - have you come across John Duke yet in Nationwide BS? He went to Nationwide... he used to be my boss, he used that 'business decision' all the time for precisely the reason you say.

Re John Duke yep, he is my executive, for the next 117 working days until I leave