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jbennett Posts: 2840 Master Mason Webzine Staff	Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot 05/10/07 at 9:29am Language and sense have no place in business. Vent your frustration, people.
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prettyminotaur Columbia, Missouri going to eat your brains and gain your knowledge! Posts: 2196 Master Mason Webzine Staff	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #1 - 05/10/07 at 10:33am I hate it when people say "language" or "verbiage" when they really mean "writing." I also hate "iteration," "stakeholders," and "out-of-the-box." Our webmaster at Goucher is a veritable fountain of verbal vomit.
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SMOOOOOTH 20910 silver sprung Posts: 8008 Master Mason Webzine Staff A/V Club	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #2 - 05/10/07 at 11:31am http://www.beatbots.com/cgi-bin/board/YaBB.pl?num=1168393558
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b-fins Ex Member	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #3 - 05/10/07 at 11:40am There's a company my school contracts with called "SYMPLICITY." I don't know if the name stems from irony or jackasshabadashery, but I often forget how to spell it.
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jbennett Posts: 2840 Master Mason Webzine Staff	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #4 - 05/10/07 at 12:39pm mandatory grief counseling?
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jbennett Posts: 2840 Master Mason Webzine Staff	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #5 - 05/11/07 at 12:20pm Somebody's Got a Case of the Mondays! (this is grounds for homicide as far as I'm concerned.)
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digital djigit baltimore rasterman Posts: 4270 Master Mason	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #6 - 09/04/07 at 1:43pm Not strictly workplace but "for free" irritates me. Either "free" or "at no cost" or "for nothing".
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b-fins Ex Member	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #7 - 09/04/07 at 3:34pm I'm still hung up on "creative business solutions"
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Cantstandgela Bmorz i am not richard ramirez, a troll, or grover. Posts: 2287 Master Mason	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #8 - 09/04/07 at 6:13pm least favorites. "ducks in a row" and "pot calling the kettle black". i have no idea why the latter was used so frequently in the publishing world.
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prettyminotaur Columbia, Missouri going to eat your brains and gain your knowledge! Posts: 2196 Master Mason Webzine Staff	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #9 - 09/08/07 at 12:52pm irritating english grad school jargon: "problematic," "deconstruct," "subjective."
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digital djigit baltimore rasterman Posts: 4270 Master Mason	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #10 - 09/08/07 at 6:26pm "problematic" used as a noun? I am kind of a sucker for humanities jargon.
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A Cat Named Virtue New Jersey Self-aware Pretenses Posts: 1123 Master Mason Webzine Staff	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #11 - 09/08/07 at 7:15pm "Pop" as a catch-all way to describe something that is eye-catching. Huzzah for mind-numbingly non-specific advertising language! "Does it pop? Can we give it more pop? I want it to pop more."
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Boss I am people! Posts: 3 Newbie	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #12 - 09/22/07 at 11:18pm Language and sense have no place in business.This word is very useful for all of us.Thanks.
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SMOOOOOTH 20910 silver sprung Posts: 8008 Master Mason Webzine Staff A/V Club	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #13 - 09/23/07 at 1:12am Working in a non-profit, I hear the word "ask" used as a noun all the time, and I hate it. "Did you make the ask?"
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prettyminotaur Columbia, Missouri going to eat your brains and gain your knowledge! Posts: 2196 Master Mason Webzine Staff	Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot Reply #14 - 09/23/07 at 11:03am more irritating grad school workplace jargon: "high-brow," "problematize," "neologism."
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Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot
Reply #15 - 09/23/07 at 1:38pm

A Cat Named Virtue wrote on 09/08/07 at 7:15pm:

"Pop" as a catch-all way to describe something that is eye-catching. Huzzah for mind-numbingly non-specific advertising language!

"Does it pop? Can we give it more pop? I want it to pop more."

my skin is crawling now. imagine this if in reference to artwork of molecular artwork for a chemistry textbook! Cry

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Re: Irritating Workplace Jargon Depot
Reply #16 - 09/23/07 at 3:38pm

Degreaser wrote on 09/23/07 at 1:38pm: