Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[MrGongGong]

"hard working families"

[Serial_Apologist]

"outcomes" ......... what's wrong with RESULTS?

I once asked about this distinction while on a business studies module of a college course, and was told, "Results mark an end-process, whereas outcomes lead to results".

Like, death?

[amateur51]

"hard working families"

Too bloomin' true MrGG

[antongould]

We are where we are....................

well where the hell else would we be?

[amateur51]

Not the words so much as what they portend .. staff/team meetings aka insititutional psychodrama

[MrGongGong]

"Emperor's New Clothes" when used in the context of contemporary art and/or music

[Serial_Apologist]

Moving on - as in, "How sad, you won't be able to move on until you know for certain where your sister's body was buried".

"The national interest" - there is no such thing.

[Nick Armstrong]

Is this the fastest-growing thread in the history of The Forum... ?!

[JanH]

I once asked about this distinction while on a business studies module of a college course, and was told, "Results mark an end-process, whereas outcomes lead to results".

Like, death?

!@!£$%^&*()_+ .......... well, at least the answer you received made me giggle....BUT what a load of twaddle.

[JanH]

Is this the fastest-growing thread in the history of The Forum... ?!

Well, it certainly proves that there is a lot of it about these days. Who invents all this silly twaddle?....

[eighthobstruction]

The financial disaster that we inherited....

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, it certainly proves that there is a lot of it about these days. Who invents all this silly twaddle?....

Consultants and other 'professionals' who charge for telling people how to do things.

[Pianorak]

Debts appear to be paid down - rather than off as in the olden days. No wonder we are still in debt.

The word “drizzle” (used by chefs) for some strange reason sends my BP up.

[rauschwerk]

The use of 'showcase' as a verb.

'On a weekly/monthly/regular basis' to mean simply 'weekly/monthly/regularly'.

[Nick Armstrong]

Going forward

Allied horrors are "pre-preparations" and "forward planning" - an oldie, the latter I think, but what other sort of bloody planning is there?

I'm afraid I laugh in people's faces when they trot out this sort of rubbish in meetings. A favourite rib-tickler for me is

"Let's touch base later"

Various responses include "You keep your hands off my base", "Somebody call HR" &c. &c.