Speaking like David Brent is unprofessional

[Locky]

There's no I in team.........................

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

"you know" NO I OBVIOUSLY DON'T!!!!

 

[Barnet Seagull]

24-7 365.

 

[lost in london]

Our new boss keeps on talking about squaring the circle? What the f***!!

At the end of the day pisses me off no end, as does 'd'you know what I mean? over and over again. I have started saying 'yes, I do know what you mean'. But that makes me look like even more of a pedantic twat than I already am.

Has anyone read Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss? The best book on punctuation around, not that there's much competition.

 

[Yorkie]

I have a dreadful habit of saying

'I must admit'

I must admit it occurs very frequently in my conversation.

 

[pasty]

"I have an opportunity for you...."

No you don't, you have a problem you can't solve and want to pass it on to me.

 

[pasty]

"I have an opportunity for you...."

No you don't, you have a problem you can't solve and want to pass it on to me.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

"We're ramping up in Japan" Well lucky you.

Has anyone noticed that John Byrne (legend) on SCR starts most sentences with "Like I said...." when most of the time he hasn't previously mentioned the subject that he then goes on to talk about? Once you notice it you can't NOT notice it.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

* Let's just park that idea!!* My boss, as if to say let's leave that for now!!!!

Our Marketing people are always 'parking' things, usually accompanied by an appropriate gesture, with the hand that isn't holding a latte.

They also spend a lot of time 'thinking outside the box' or engaging in'blue sky thinking' usually about ways to 'leverage' our 'USP (unique service proposition)'. or 'mine' our resources

Ideally we should all be looking for 'quick wins' or as they put it identifying ways to 'pick the low hanging fruit'

 

[maffew]

need to be more proactive not reactive

 

[Bwian]

This thread is

starting to push the envelope...just what the f**k is that all about?

 

[Hungry Joe.]

I particularly dislike "with all due respect" which means "I think you're an arsehole and your talking bollocks but I haven't got the nerve to tell you this in plain English".

I think I've used "at the end of the day" on one of my postings, whoops.

"IT'S ALL GOOD STUFF DEAR"

 

[Jason Speaks]

It's all much of a muchness is extremely irritating

 

[Titanic]

Personally, I'm all for a good bit of Blamestorming !

 

[zefarelly]

ball park figure !!!!

I do like guesstimate though . . . .as thats usually what peole get when they ask

'let me run this by you' . . . .NO . . .I'd rather run you over !

 

[Pavilionaire]

'Going outside your comfort zone' is a good one.

I particularly hate anything inspired by American TV, e.g "wake up and smell the coffee" and the ironic "errr, hello?"

 

[Marc]

'Going outside your comfort zone' is a good one.

I particularly hate anything inspired by American TV, e.g "wake up and smell the coffee" and the ironic "errr, hello?"

I have NEVER got the yanky expression:

"Way to go!"

Way to go where? Mate once told me it means Well Done...that makes NO sense then!

 

[Titanic]

and what gives with the 'Hey' thing instead of 'Hello' ??

 

[Icy Gull]

I'll take a rain check on that - wtf??

 

[Marc]

the classic girlfriend one:

"i think we need to talk" - RUBBISH...She does the talking and dumps you wil you sit there like this and when you try to talk she says "no let me finish" and ends up with "i think its for the best" - which is another one....ITS NOT THE BLOODY BEST FOR ME LOVE!




/women rant over!