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

[stek]

Didn't you get the memo about the new cover sheet for the TPS reports?

[MrMarkyMark]

Lets have a series of workshops

[CoolCat]

TCS
Cognizant
Infosys
HCL
Accenture
BT

and

Agile

[vetran]

Lets have a series of workshops

oooh cake!!! is my normal reaction to that.

[Chuck]

Team building exercise
Christmas party

[MicrosoftBob]

pear programming
(It's like pair programming just with fatter coders)

[MrMarkyMark]

Team lunch (where the perms, when asked first, are too scared to have a beer, then the MD has to have one with you to save face)

[TykeMerc]

Team building exercise
Christmas party

I don't mind either of those as they've both got positive connotations if worked right.

Programme Director while I was in Cardiff often showed up to some of the social nights that contractors and permies arranged, they became even more alcohol soaked when they were declared as "team building" and therefore fully funded
Been on a variety of discretely fully funded parties around Christmas, I will rarely turn down a free pint. Mind you I fully funded a team do last Christmas as they'd just relocated a sizeable lump of heaven and earth and they deserved it.

[OwlHoot]

Certainly, not a problem.

Regards.

From that reply I'd just think how considerate and professional you were, never dreaming you were imagining me with an axe embedded in my skull

[MercladUK]

sizeable lump of heaven and earth

also

Digital