...I just hate how it's been hijacked and used to refer to any group... the nursing community, the gay community, the deaf community, etc, etc... but I read an article in a magazine today, that referred to the F16 community.... is it a village inhabited by American jet fighters...? It's just getting silly.
...any other irritating terms come to mind?

"going forward"

the company needs to be......... blah blah blah blah ..going forward

People who talk in acronyms....Real converstaion....." are you conversant with D.E.M.S".... the big man asked.... ..."what?" I said ...."D.E.M.S.?" he asked...." I know what it means, but what does a defensively equipped merchant ship have to do with working here?" I asked.
"Absolutely nothing...shall we try something else ?" he sighed.

I concur.

People who overindulge in Acronyms should be sent to JAIL (Jaguar and Alligator Infested Locations).

Is it reasonable to talk about the PoolieBunker community?

Also 'moving forward' is another business fave at the moment

Others I really fecking hate are

'Cascade'
'Team Lead', rather then team leader
and the all time classic
'Keep me in the loop'

as long as we are all singing from the same hymnsheet

The word 'leverage'. I can barely bring meself to type it.

When I worked for an American company the swines across the sea it seems HAD to use it in EVERY email. Then the arse-licking UK managers all started using it.

It just doesn't seem like a proper word to me, like a noun bastardised into a verb or something. Roughly translated it's another way of saying 'use'. Used in a context like:

'We need to leverage our group purchasing power to facilitate bulk discounts.'

Bastads. I hope they all choke on their doughnuts (or should that be donuts?)

Even worse is my current job: Deputy Team Leader



A few more I hate:

On the back of that
Touch Base
Caveat
Paradigm shift

LIAISE

"At this moment in time"" as beloved by plod and other brain-deads.
Just in case we get it mixed up with any other moment.

Try and get your head round this!!

What everyone else has said plus 'Blue Sky Thinking' and 'Project Management'. Not used that much now but I used to hate 'Quality Circles'.

i remember when i werked in the werks
and there was a great number of "FIRMS MEN" who alwys took the firms line in any dispute yet would look like they were sitting on the fence
apart from dibble how many firms men have we on the board

WTF is blue sky thinking??

Aren't 'Quality Circles' a kind of quality troubleshooting and problem prevention meeting with a tightly documented procedure? Mind, I suppose the phrase didn't take long to get hijacked to refer to any old kind of quality discussion.

My fave was when I got told brainstorming wasn't pc and was told to use the phrase "thought shower" instead. Apparently brainstorming could offend epileptics.

Methinks.

Only utter and complete full weight bounders use that.

Haha - we call them golden shower meetings at work now!

I hate any kind of b0ll0cks like these phrases, they are used by people who are not intelligent but think these phrases will make others think they are... in the end though people just think they are c**ts!

"When you drill down through the document"...

welcome to the board

As hinted above, Blue Sky Thinking was introduced instead of Brainstorming which was indeed considered non PC to people suffering from epilepsy.

And now for something completely different,

at the end of the day methinks the optometrists would think the way the season has gone the glass is half full not half empty

I hate the word guesstimate

anyone who uses that should be banned from life in general.

Infact they should be deemed illegal, it is illegal to be you, so your against the law, go to prison or die or summit!

When I worked in industry we used an acronym: SWAG = "scientific wild-arsed guess"

Now that's the kind of acronym I don't mind!

Sorry to bring this up again but a classic comment was raised at work the other day

"Ian, It's time for you to step up to the plate"

Did Ian keep a straight face?

I'll bet he did, and thanked his works community

He did keep a straight face as it happens, he also stepped upto the plate and proceeded to eat everything that was on it

'Assist.'

As in 'he's got 2 assists.'

What, do you mean he passed the ball to the bloke who booted it into the net??

Oh, cock, and indeed, on, then.

Who was our MVP???

Sounds like Halewood to me. That'd serve 'em right.

What about
Centre Backs
Midfielders
Strikers
When i played football you had
Goalie
right back left back
right half centre half left half
right wing inside right centre forward inside left left wing

but was that cast in tablets of stone