Office-Speak phrases you hate (1 Viewer)

[Super Dexta]

You should try the interative model where everyone huddles at 2pm everyday for a 'scrum'.

shocking

oh i'm well used to daily scrums, and we don't have a project lead any more, we have a scrum master who tracks our progress towards sprint completion in a burndown chart.

 

[rettucs]

you win

 

[Unicron]

oh i'm well used to daily scrums, and we don't have a project lead any more, we have a scrum master who tracks our progress towards sprint completion in a burndown chart.

Is your boss Chris Morris?

 

[Man In A Can]

Not office talk but total cunt bagishness that goes on in my place.Trying to outdo other consultants and look good, there are a crowd that have Stand Up meetings, the idea is that if you are comfy your more likely to go off topic. What wankers.

 

[Super Dexta]

Is your boss Chris Morris?

can't talk, working on my backlog items, there's a few showstoppers in there

 

[Super Dexta]

Not office talk but total cunt bagishness that goes on in my place.Trying to outdo other consultants and look good, there are a crowd that have Stand Up meetings, the idea is that if you are comfy your more likely to go off topic. What wankers.

aha! our daily scrums are held standing up as well. i dial into them mostly but if i'm working in the same office as the rest of my scrum team we all go into a meeting room and stand around a table.

am I in some sort of office-based comedy tv show that I don't know about?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Not office talk but total cunt bagishness that goes on in my place.Trying to outdo other consultants and look good, there are a crowd that have Stand Up meetings, the idea is that if you are comfy your more likely to go off topic. What wankers.

Christ almighty,its hard to believe people like this exist.

 

[billygannon]

Has anyone had a boss who maxes it out on the squash court at lunchtime?

 

[Lili Marlene]

People you have never heard of BCC-ing what appears to be the entire (vast, vast) company their goodbye e-mail

 

[Jerry Twig]

We need a couple of game-changing big wins around here.

 

[fobster]

Socialize this report to the relevant SMEs (Subject matter experts... read: single-minded eejits...).

 

[Pedronimus]

[video=youtube_share;w_KqQZETfR0]http://youtu.be/w_KqQZETfR0[/video]

 

[maims bond]

"Do you know how to work the twitter?"

 

[washingcattle]

We have the highest respect for what you are doing

 

[Cormcolash]

I demand more from this thread, as well as the return of the 'annoying housemates' thread - two of the best on Thumped

 

[jonah]

Oh yes! I have so much housemate hate this year. Last year was a breeze in comparison... really I think I'm the bad housemate.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

"Let's revert to that later."

 

[Jerry Twig]

Yes, let's park that idea for now and concentrate on the low hanging fruit.

 

[Jim Daniels]

"Let's revert to that later."

"If you have any queries, please revert to me"

What? I was never you in the first place....

 

[Unicron]

"For fuck's sake Ian."