Least favorite Industry Buzzwords

Langly · January 21, 2015, 11:19:20 AM

I hate the buzzword "cloud". Its all over the place and obnoxious. Sales guys pitching THE CLOUD makes me want to cry.

Had to install the Cloud to Butt plugin in Chrome to save my sanity

https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt or just google cloud to butt for the chrome or firefox extensions for this glorious glorious fix.

Anyone else have any buzzwords you hate or hated in the past you need to vent about? Lets share em!

mynd · January 21, 2015, 11:53:06 AM

game changer

deanwebb · January 21, 2015, 12:11:41 PM

Reach out.

Whatever happened to email, contact, phone up, holler at...?

Used to be, "I'll email Kev."
"Better also phone him. He doesn't check his email often."

Now it's "I'll reach out to Kev," and everyone now assumes that either you're smart enough to phone him or that Kev will maybe, just this once, check his email often enough for your contact attempt to be effective.

And, yes, "The Cloud" is horrendous. Once upon a time, we called it "the remote data center."

Any discussion of staffing that involves words that end in -size or -shore is awful. Don't right-size by home-shoring. Just hire more people to work locally. Sheesh...

The worst, though, are the ads for business colleges that I hear on the radio in between traffic reports. They are one buzzword after another. "It's in our core DNA to be competitive." Wait, you've got regular DNA, and then you've got a *core* DNA?

sgtcasey · January 21, 2015, 05:03:48 PM

Quick-win. Someone I worked with years ago learned that phrase and then it was nothing but that every other sentence.

deanwebb · January 21, 2015, 08:26:05 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buzzwords

Langly · January 21, 2015, 11:54:32 PM

Quote from: deanwebb on January 21, 2015, 08:26:05 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buzzwords

Oh lord that list... I just realized how GUILTY I am of using certain buzzwords in common everyday speech. Time to reevaluate my speech patterns

deanwebb · January 22, 2015, 08:42:14 AM

I'm printing off the list.

The education ones really make me barf, as I have 16 years in that profession, and buzzwords are the death of education.

Also: http://bullshitgenerator.blogspot.com/2010/01/mba-jargon-exhaustive-list.html

config t · January 23, 2015, 03:14:06 PM

I've been using "too easy" while training soldiers lately.

Example: "Unplug the phone, hold #, wait for the light sequence to begin. Let go of #, enter 123456789*0#, don't save the network settings. <wait for hint of understanding to show on face> Too easy."

Somehow they still mess it up

deanwebb · January 23, 2015, 03:24:13 PM

Keep up the good work! That's a great way to incentivize frictionless channels, leverage vertical e-business, deploy collaborative platforms, and cultivate viral experiences.