IT industry words or phrases that make your heart sink....

[Sysman]

Here's a question :

Are there any words or phrases that make your heart jump with joy? **

"There's an Apéro at 4 o'clock"

usually does the trick.

[PurpleGorilla]

...... so we've just about covered the entire vocabulary of corporate-speak.

Here's a question :

Are there any words or phrases that make your heart jump with joy? **


** Any responses about, "rate-rises", "renewals", "invoice payments" are too obvious and you will be deducted points for unoriginality.

What do you think?

Well done, great job!

You have been a great consultant.
Book a couple of days extra on us.

I know you left ages ago and there is no contact but could you help us out and send us a big fat invoice?

[Platypus]

"the art of the possible"

Hum. Sounds like IBM. I effin hate that phrase. No one knows what it means anyway.

[OwlHoot]

"There's an Apéro at 4 o'clock"

usually does the trick.

We have those at clientco site-wide huddles.

But the downside is having to listen to an hour or more of drivel and interminable complicated slides which I can't see from the back.

[MicrosoftBob]

We have those at clientco site-wide huddles.

But the downside is having to listen to an hour or more of drivel and interminable complicated slides which I can't see from the back.

What's the downside to not seeing the slides ????

[original PM]

Socialise that idea

[original PM]

Information radiator

[darmstadt]

Information radiator

You've made that one up. I mean, if someone said that to me I'd just look at them as if they were a total moron

[PurpleGorilla]

You've made that one up. I mean, if someone said that to me I'd just look at them as if they were a total moron

Bleed the information radiator?

[BigRed]

Upside:
the permies are so negative and stuck in their ways the project would never have taken off without the can-do attitude of the contractors.