"Boxes to be Ticked" - Does this phrase not drive you nuts?

slumped

I hate anyone who uses the phrases

"Ticks all the boxes"
"boxes to be ticked"

etc.

Just heard Don Givens use it twice in an interview and then Ray Houghton used it in another interview.

Does it drive anyone else mad??

S

5starpool

I hate all management speak, and that comes under that category.

MarkR

What if you have to help someone fill out a form with lots of boxes to be ticked? Would that be acceptable? Or just a non-committal grunt and hand waving?

Tar.Aldarion

Nobody I know says it, not much of an issue.

Dudess

5starpool wrote: »

I hate all management speak, and that comes under that category.

Surely you don't mind "touching base" every so often to discuss the most recent "paradigm shift"?

Gran Hermano

Yet another contender for a 2008 version of bull**** bingo.

Add it to the list:

• Synergy
• Strategic fit
• Core competencies
• Turbulent environment
• Out of the box
• Think outside the box
• Pushback
• Bottom line
• Revisit
• Take that off-line
• 24/7
• Out of the loop
• Benchmark
• Value-added
• Proactive
• Bandwidth
• Win-win
• Iconic
• Fast track
• Results-driven
• Customer-driven
• Service-driven
• Client focus(ed) or Customer focus(ed)
• Paradigm
• Empower (or empowerment)
• Knowledge base
• At the end of the day
• Touch base
• Mindset
• Ballpark
• Game plan
• Scenario
• Leverage
• Cascade
• Sequential or sequentially
• Ubiquitous

Terry

I'll tick your bleedin' box.

FlutterinBantam

As someone in senior management I don't see anything wrong with these expressions,quite frankly.

Some people have a mental block against anything on the edge of the envelope, and because they cannot understand the terminology immediately attack it.

Bit of blue sky thinking here I think is needed.

watna

I really do hate management speak too. It actually gets my back up and makes me think the user of such speech is mentally incapable.

A manager of mine uses the phrase "did you do a tick bosh on that" meaning have you matched the document against the criteria or something like that. Drives me up the frigging walls.

Draupnir

Don't forget the coversheet on your TPS reports guys.

watna

Draupnir wrote: »

Don't forget the coversheet on your TPS reports guys.

Very good. That film got me through some hard times!

Draupnir

I hear ya, Sky Comedy show it regularly these days, its like looking into a mirror!

watna

Draupnir wrote: »

I hear ya, Sky Comedy show it regularly these days, its like looking into a mirror!

I downloaded the song that plays at the end credits of the film. It's called "take this job and shove it". It's also good for getting through hard times at work. Just plug your ipod in and feel the music, man!

Dudess

What movie is it?

watna

Dudess wrote: »

What movie is it?

Office Space. If you haven't seen it, go watch it now! NOW!!

Dudess

And I presume, even though it's a satire, it's not even that exaggerated? Some stuff can't even be parodied. I've worked in offices for many years and some of the sh1t that goes on you couldn't make up.

Zaph

I bought Office Space about two weeks ago. Classic film, I was nearly tempted to buy these.

Black Swan

Are you ticked off?

Zaph

No, I just want my stapler back.

watna

Zaph wrote: »

I bought Office Space about two weeks ago. Classic film, I was nearly tempted to buy these.

Awesome!!

Eoin

As much as I hate to say it, some of those terms are completely valid and don't even have a shorter / less wanky way to say the same thing.

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Yet another contender for a 2008 version of bull**** bingo.

Add it to the list:

• Synergy
• Strategic fit
• Core competencies
• Turbulent environment
• Out of the box
• Think outside the box
• Pushback
• Bottom line
• Revisit
• Take that off-line
• 24/7
• Out of the loop
• Benchmark
• Value-added
• Proactive
• Bandwidth
• Win-win
• Iconic
• Fast track
• Results-driven
• Customer-driven
• Service-driven
• Client focus(ed) or Customer focus(ed)
• Paradigm
• Empower (or empowerment)
• Knowledge base
• At the end of the day
• Touch base
• Mindset
• Ballpark
• Game plan
• Scenario
• Leverage
• Cascade
• Sequential or sequentially
• Ubiquitous

Gran Hermano

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Yet another contender for a 2008 version of bull**** bingo.

Add it to the list:

• Synergy
• Strategic fit
• Core competencies
• Turbulent environment
• Out of the box
• Think outside the box
• Pushback
• Bottom line
• Revisit
• Take that off-line
• 24/7
• Out of the loop
• Benchmark
• Value-added
• Proactive
• Bandwidth
• Win-win
• Iconic
• Fast track
• Results-driven
• Customer-driven
• Service-driven
• Client focus(ed) or Customer focus(ed)
• Paradigm
• Empower (or empowerment)
• Knowledge base
• At the end of the day
• Touch base
• Mindset
• Ballpark
• Game plan
• Scenario
• Leverage
• Cascade
• Sequential or sequentially
• Ubiquitous

You forgot "revert"
Dear god it annoys me when people say/write "I'll revert to you..."
You can't turn back into me - you were never me. GET A DICTIONARY.
:mad:

watna

bluewolf wrote: »

You forgot "revert"
Dear god it annoys me when people say/write "I'll revert to you..."
You can't turn back into me - you were never me. GET A DICTIONARY.
:mad:

I was going to mention this dreaded word earlier, but feared it would turn me in to a gibbering wreck with anger. It has to be the knobbiest, stupidest thing people say in work, easily!

ejmaztec

bluewolf wrote: »

You forgot "revert"
Dear god it annoys me when people say/write "I'll revert to you..."
You can't turn back into me - you were never me. GET A DICTIONARY.
:mad:

+1000

Dudess

My dad's an engineer and he gets me to type stuff for him - the utter ARSE he puts down! I usually end up rewriting it for him as well as typing it. According to a newspaper editor I know, engineers are among the worst for using treacley language, believing it to be more correct than just PLAIN ENGLISH!!
E.g. using the term "ingress" instead of "entrance"...

Manic Moran

I hate corporate buzz-speak as much as the next guy, but 'checking all the boxes' is not one of those phrases I object to, as it actually makes a bit of sense.

If you have a list of things to do before something can happen, it is reasonable to have a checklist to confirm that you've done them all. Once an item on that list has been completed, you mark it as completed somehow. Sometimes you cross it out, sometimes you put a checkmark next to it.

Where's the problem?

NTM

Chong

The one I hate so very much is "Goodness" they always use it where I work, and its always used out of context.

0utshined

Manic Moran wrote: »

Where's the problem?

/!\ Manager spotted in this thread /!\

Dudess

Manic Moran wrote: »

I hate corporate buzz-speak as much as the next guy, but 'checking all the boxes' is not one of those phrases I object to, as it actually makes a bit of sense.

If you have a list of things to do before something can happen, it is reasonable to have a checklist to confirm that you've done them all. Once an item on that list has been completed, you mark it as completed somehow. Sometimes you cross it out, sometimes you put a checkmark next to it.

Where's the problem?

Agreed. I like being organised and doing all that kind of sh1t. Margaret Thatcher once said "Happiness is a ticked off list". Much as I hate the auld bitch, I gotta agree with her on that one.

Manic Moran

0utshined wrote: »

/!\ Manager spotted in this thread /!\

Well, military officer. And check-the-box lists are down to the level of a private checking his vehicle before operation. You ever fly? The pilot and co-pilot have a checklist which they go down, step by step before they take off.

Nothing managerial in this.

NTM

Zaph

I don't see "going forward" on that list. Seriously, one particular in work is going to get a punch in the mouth from me if they use it near me one more time. Since when has the future become "forward"?

Jay P

Oh, i thought this thread was about women saying it about men and being really picky

IanCurtis

You wanna see the ****e they've produced in the lobby of our offices. A fcuking "global strategy" pyramid that they're building one bit at a time every day this week.

I feel like taking a ****e on it.

****.

Laslo

And I used to be over by the window and I could see the squirrels and they were merry.

seamus

Half of it stems from engineers who allow their pseudo-english engineering terms to creep into everyday speak.
"Hard Stop" is another one. As in, you're having a meeting and someone says we have to "Hard Stop" at 3 o'clock. As opposed to saying, "we have to end this at 3 because..."