Reply to: IT industry words or phrases that make your heart sink....

[rl4engc]

"I'll set up a Pre-Meeting.."

or the worst ever, as it generally means a 'keep your head down', 'anti-subby' climate is on the horizon:

HR1

[RSoles]

[QUOTE=ELBBUBKUNPS;2153843] back in the 90's.
Yeah, I hate that one. Makes it sound like it was ages ago, instead of only last.... oh, hang on.......

[WTFH]

It might be time to remind them that their last company either went broke or became merger material due to adopting SAP.

Their last company supplies trucks to ISIS. (I don't think I need to put "allegedly" in there, do I?)


The person in question talks about how well she knows SAP from her 3 years of working for them, compared with the 8 years she has been here. Her role appears to be asking for the most obscurely linked data ever, which she then does nothing with apart from filling up disk space.

[Sysman]

"That's not how the IT system worked at my last company"


Yes. They were on SAP R3. Your current company does not run on SAP.

It might be time to remind them that their last company either went broke or became merger material due to adopting SAP.

[Sysman]

"Reach out to"....

This one ^

It seems to be quite recent. Thus far only from Yanks.

Dunno why but it reminds me of 1970s preachers in the Billy Graham mould.

It's not just a reminder that they want to suck me in to their product or way of thinking, but that a collection plate will be winging its way towards me sooner or later.

[WTFH]

"That's not how the IT system worked at my last company"


Yes. They were on SAP R3. Your current company does not run on SAP.

[PerfectStorm]

The words 'piece' and 'space' used in any consultancy-like fashion

e.g. "Lets support the documentation piece" and "We work in the XYZ space"

SPEAK NORMALLY

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

"Reach out to"....

I hate this one to, it seems to be an American thing as I never heard it till I worked at American place, always makes me think of the deodorant advert back in the 90's.

'Touch base' as well, I feel an idiot saying it 'I will reach out to x, y and z and touch base with them'.

[TestMangler]

You have been invited to a Scuba session in the project think tank !

[original PM]

Yep - thats one I really hate

You probably need to socialise your feelings on the information radiator then

[vetran]

Omnivorous data consumption.......

love it! I'm having that.

[Pogle]

Omnivorous data consumption.......

[vetran]

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

they ask questions later .

Always best done over a poor conference connection with half a dozen thick foreign accents where each nationality switches to their native language at full speed occasionally.

[Pogle]

Socialise that idea

Yep - thats one I really hate

[Dark Black]

"Planning Poker" brilliant! Never heared it before, but certainly going to use it from now on.

It's an agile thing... (smiley aimed at agile not you!)

Set of cards numbered 1 to 10, everyone has a set, there is a brief (and I do mean brief) overview of each task, then everyone gets to guesstimate via their cards as to how long they think the task will take...

Ridiculous. Many times I refused to vote since there wasn't enough detail in the overview.

First time I saw this I nearly fell off my chair laughing.. Software engineering goes to kindergarten.