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Corny Management sayings.....
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Corny Management sayings.....

Corny Management sayings.....

(OP)
I don't know if this has been visited by our members yet...

What about those corny management sayings?

Make sure the staff is aligned with this proposal,

At the end of the day,

Let me put my ___________ hat on,

I gotta believe,

Force march to the sea,

We need someone to get plugged in to that,

Anyone providing air cover,

and on and on and on........any more out there?

Regards,
Qshake

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Joined-up working.

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Blue sky thinking

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Think outside the box

Think of it as a development opportunity

It will be reflected in your bonus

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"that's like the tail wagging the dog"

"we know what we're doing"

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- by Albert Einstein

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"Going forward" Is there another direction?

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This is the holy grail.  I've been tempted to play.

http://www.bulls**tbingo.net

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This will give you an opportunity to excel.

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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

It's a moving bus situation

Someone moved the goalposts

There's a good reason for that, but I can't tell you what it is


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Yeah, but my door is always open.
Let me tell you from personal experience, run like FFFF(sounds like puck)if your boss runs that one out.
G'day LN, if you ever read this I'm doing OK since I went out on my own.

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You've had a long week, take the next two days off.

If anyone ever sees my door open, close it!

One minute late is the same as 5 minutes late!

(I have really heard these)

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

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Get our ducks in a row

Cast in Jello

Quick as a wink, nothing happened.

Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng

Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
www.kitsonengineering.com

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I heard this beauty earlier in the week, "I don't need facts, I need team players."

Maybe I'm dreaming in Techni-color, but can you just ______.

Maybe I'm viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses, but why can't we just ______.

Can I have just 1 minute of your time?

This should only take a second.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
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The most frightening one I heard: "This will look good on your resume'...."

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If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited to ask you then.

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This new project easy, it shouldn't take you very long...

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"Don't worry about that aspect of the project, I've already taken care of it."

Sometimes abbreviated "Done and done."

In either case, NEVER true....

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Proactive this, proactive that

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"Ticked that box"
except, as the Capain of one of the bigger tankers explained to me, his (foreign, non english speaking) crew knew enough to tick the boxes on the check sheet but never knew enough to understand the items on the check list, never mind their actual status.
Hence the objective of the excercise becomes "ticking the boxes".
Sound familiar?

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

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I'm sorry, but you're way overqualified for this job.
This guy scares me. I hope this line gets him outta here before he goes postal.

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Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Keep the bathwater.

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Lacking adequate tools, materials, chemicals, manpower & time, the owner liked to tell me:
"You're an engineer.  Well, engineer!"

"Those electricians don't know what they're doing, they're just afraid of losing their licenses. We'll pull the wires ourselves" and then not electropolish at the same time as hard anodizing [max. amperage draw of all the rectifiers was several times the supply].  
Got to see a high voltage circuit breaker glowing red hot!

"The secret to success in business is secrecy."
-- well, he kept so many secrets from the IRS & State Tax Board & wife's divorce lawyers & EPA & Fire Dept. HazMat regulators, that I could have retired on his legal fees and fines.

"You can't tell the customer the truth"
"Ken, you may be technically correct, but..."

-- Needless to say, I couldn't take much of that any more.



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I've asked <name> to step down as <job title>.

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"People are our greatest asset"...

Love that one.

Cheers

Greg Locock

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Anything that includes the word 'paradigm'.

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"Ignorance Is No Excuse" - nope, to management it is a qualification...

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"Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions."

"It should take you an hour..."

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I work in product development, it always gets me at quarterly luncheons when I hear an executive spout, "...and we have ___ new products for this year..."  We do!?  Thanks for letting me know.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
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Synergy

Outside the box

We should set up a meeting . . .

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"We've ALWAYS done it this way..."

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- by Albert Einstein

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A star for that one , sprintcar!  That is one of my (least) favorites.

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"You're all wet."  means you have no idea what you're talking about.

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debriefing after a long overseas assignment: who are you?

saludos.
a.

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A couple corny but serious from my ex-boss:

"It's not a crime if you don't get caught."

"My lawyers will destroy you if you talk."

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You don’t need to be an engineer to know (insert statement that either has nothing to do with engineering and/or is wrong)

Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng

Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
www.kitsonengineering.com

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And then there is classic Managerese vs Engineerese:

http://www.inflection-point.com/jokes/60.htm

Wheels within wheels / In a spiral array
A pattern so grand / And complex
Time after time / We lose sight of the way
Our causes can't see / Their effects.

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A favorite cult phrase currently doing the rounds here (an Aussie Steelworks) by middle/upper man is

"Lay the rubber on the road"

ASM

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"We have a responsibility to the shareholders"
meaning: you are about to be shafted.

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

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"We are on the Titanic"

"We need to get up to speed on that."

"Just do it, and if we get caught ask for forgiveness."

Vita sine litteris mors est.

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"Just do it, and if we get caught ask for forgiveness." -- wow, there must be great differences between industries/companies.

I always used to hear: "Better say than sorry!" -- the best way to discourage any plan, daring or not, just because:
- the plan has never been tried before
- there is "no time" to implement it
- there is too much time to think about how to further improve it
- somebody came up with a completely unrealistic scenario of how things might get risky but nobody can convince him it's unrealistic
- the engineer who came up with the plan is under 50 yrs old
- the manager did not invent the plan himself
- .....

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At a previous employer these statements usually occured within 5 minutes of each other when discussing new product design or modifications.

"That's a no brainer!"

"Do we really need to test that? What could possibly go wrong?"

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Pretty sure epoisses meant "Better safe than sorry!"
 
Ex-boss was the opposite, bringing to mind the expression "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."  
One of his favorites was:

"It's my job to get the part in the door; it's your job to figure out how to do it."
-- He bid on a job for which we lacked processing capability.

"It's only a prototype; fake it."

"There's something wrong with the crane.  Fix it."  
--- Boss looked at an electropolishing job & quoted a price.  Failed to consider that the stainless part weighed 1700# more than aluminum of the same size.

"Come to the office" followed by "Close the door behind you"
--- meant I don't want witnesses for a forwith Labor Law violation, e.g.:  "I want to fire ___ for complaining to the State; find cause so they  won't get unemployment."

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"baby steps"

I guess it is really meant as a varition on the " a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step" and suggests breaking things down into tiny "digestable" chunks.

But for this manager it really meant we do it one very slow step at a time with lots of reports and meetings in between (i.e. at a rate at which he could hope to fathom out what was happening, but at which his expectations always exceeded his mental capacity) and if the directors complain about progress, pass the buck downwards.


JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

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@kenvlach
safe - yes, that was a typo

And I feel rather embarassed about that especially because I love making fun of managers misquoting other managers' corny sayings.

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- Improvement Opportunity (they made a balls up)
- Cascade Solutions (someone must know what to do)
- Virtual Stream Mapping (unintelligible director-level dribble)

corus

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"Process mapping"

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"good enough for government work"

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"good enough for government work"

I always thought that was a phrase used AGAINST management who thought that 1% average error was twice as good as 2% average error.

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"Safety takes priority over production."

Unless safety actually affects production, naturally.

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One from the USArmy: Mission First, People Always

Wouldn't it be nice if the all private firms adopt this mentality...

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I had a boss that used to say: "Keep your stick on the ice, not your ice on the stick."

To this day I don't know what it was supposed to mean, but when he said it, he would walk away and chuckle to himself.

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Ok, I know it's only a joke, but many a truth said in jest...
Engineers and Managers:
A man flying in a hot air balloon realises he is hopelessly lost.
He reduces his altitude before spotting a man in a field down below.
He lowers the balloon further and shouts out:  “Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?”
“Yes I can,” the man below says.  “You’re in a hot air balloon, about 30 feet above where I am in this field.”
“You must be an engineer.” Says the disgruntled balloonist.
“I am.  How did you know?”  Replied the man.
“Everything you told me is correct but of no use to anyone”
The man below says:  “you must be in management.”
“I am.  But how did you know?” says the balloonist.

“You don’t know where you are, or where you’re going, but you expect me to be able to help.  You’re in the same position you were before we met, but now it’s my fault.”

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I actually met a person once whose title was "Director of Ideas." I seem to recall he was not very bright.

I had a supervisor tell me this once:

"Praise the lord and pass the ammunition." (Trust me, it was an exceptionally lousy 2 days after that statement)

"Its easier to ask for forgiveness that to ask for permission" meaning go ahead and do it and if you get in trouble, say you didn't know. I didn't do it.

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At one employer we had a "sales" guy who would give these optimistic appraisals which always included the phrase "lots of irons in the fire"

I naively associated it with a busy blacksmith, the translation turned out to be: "yes I'm bringing my clubs"

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justkeepgiviner,

The phrase is "keep your stick on the ice, not your eyes on the stick".  It is a reference to ice hockey, and how you should be ready at any time (stick on the ice) and be looking around at the entire situation, not just on your local issue (eyes on your stick).

Regards,

Cory

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I came up with my favourite back working as a student, it really caught on with the management at the time:

Voluntold - the act of a superior requiring you to volunteer.

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Heard this one today and actually quite like it.

Fortune favours the bold but is less generous to the unprepared.

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Management speak at its finest:

Quote:

"We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray that your butler can serve you drinks on, all for £4.95. People say, 'How can you sell this for such a low price?' I say, because it's total crap.'"
Following this remarkable piece of after dinner speaking £500m was wiped of the company's share value.

"Doing a Ratner is a British business phrase referring to a chief executive or a senior person of a company who criticises the company's products or disparages the customers." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_a_Ratner).

Unfortunately, while this type of management thinking or mental acuity is fairly common, in most cases these guys get promoted rather than fired.

The really sad thing is that they have control of us!

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

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"The floggings will continue until moral improves"

Interpretation of corny management sayings by those who have to listen to them.
Hydrae

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Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.

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hydrae, corporal punishment went out of style with Captain Bligh.  Management should avoid non-business-related moral issues for the sake of morale.

CoryPad's "keep your stick on the ice, not your eyes on the stick" explanation is correct but a bit high-falutin'.  On natural ice, keeping your stick down gives a split-second warning of rough ice (hard to see after early sunsets).  With your eyes on the stick, someone can send you flying or you may skate into a riverbank.  

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Wait until all management has the Staples "EASY" button and uses it. I can actually see fist fights breaking out over that one.

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Quote (CoryPad):

The phrase is "keep your stick on the ice, not your eyes on the stick".  It is a reference to ice hockey, and how you should be ready at any time (stick on the ice)


I also always thought the "keep your stick on the ice" referred more to being ready to receive/deflect a pass (being ready at all times, especially for the expected), and usually in front of the net when a defenseman is whacking at you. I can see this being useful when playing with a great playmaker such as Joe Thornton, and the passes are coming from all over.

I don't think this advise would work as well for when skating because, a) it is only a split second between the stick and you when going over rough ice, b) when skating, the stick is often off the ice a great deal as you swing your hands, handle the puck, etc

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Hey, you can buy easy buttons.
Our office now has one.  
Doesn't do much but get a management laugh out of a meeting.
Yeah...

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I went to the Staples website and now know what the button looks like.  What happens when you press it?  How much does it cost?

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We've got a chronic Management Consultant infestation at the moment - much talk of "low hanging fruit".

A.

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I must confess I appreciate the metaphor of low-hanging fruit.  But I suppose I'd get really tired of it if I heard it too many times.

Hg

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LHF: warning sometimes confused with "dingleberries"

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IF the only tool you got is a hammer, every porblem looks like a nail.

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Quote (arto):

warning sometimes confused with "dingleberries"

Now normally, I'm a great fan of improving my vocabulary, but I desperately wish I hadn't just looked that particular word up.

A.

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zeusfaber, I don't think you needed to share that.  Fruitisms are highly contagious, recommend seeking help from BJC and his hammer.

The scariest part is that such contagions spread via threads.  Perhaps sharp tacking to the original course may throw it off.

Quote (Management):

I saved us some money on that [equipment] you ordered.  I talked to the vendor and found out that we don't need two-point calibration.
--- Vendor had a cheaper, one-point unit.  Item is an effluent pH recorder required for Industrial Discharge to city sewer) to unload.  Problem was overly high upper end readings if calibrated at pH 7, and erroneously low readings at lower end if calibrated at pH 10.
Boss doesn't like violations, especially false ones.

Quote (Management):

Put the probe into a beaker of [ordinary tap]water to avoid pH violations when discharging near the high & low pH limits [6 & 10].

Besides the illegality per se, the workers never remember to return the pH probe to the required monitoring position.  Noticed the probe in the beaker on 5 consecutive plant visits!

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The truly, truly scariest expression:

Quote (Evil Ex-Boss):

Trust me.
(maybe you have to know the guy, but I wouldn't wish that upon any Eng-Tips member!)

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Re

Quote (kenvlach):

zeusfaber, I don't think you needed to share that.  Fruitisms are highly contagious, recommend seeking help from BJC and his hammer
I wilnot.

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waross,
Better check your wiring!

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There may be alternative spellings of 'wilnot' which are causing the confusion.  I have usually seen it written as 'winnit' or 'winnet' when used as a synonym for 'dingleberries'

However there must be more pleasant subjects for discussion!smile

Good Luck
johnwm
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We'll form a committee to deal with this issue/problem

The committee may or may not get formed but the problem is never dealt with.  Either the committee spends plenty of time on general/administrative billing with no results or they do produce results only to be squashed by upper management.  Personal experience only.

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Quote:

"It goes with the territory"
This is the management speak equivalent of a parents "just because" answer to a child: e.g.  "Because I say so!".

Its use is remarkably similiar and often there is no known, understood (by the speaker or adressee) fair or rational answer available.

For example, it may be used to deny time off in lieu after spending uncounted hours/days/weeks in unpaid overtime to get something done on time.

Like "our duty to the shareholders" ("our legal duty to the shareholders", if the deed is perceived to be particularly heinous or morally suspect) it is one of those convenient excuses management like to employ to excuse all sorts of plutocratic excesses or injustices (and one that carefully ignores the fact that more often than not the speaker is one of the most significant shareholders and thus has excercised this "legal duty" to his own benefit and at the expense of the non-shareholders)

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

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I had a manager, many years back, who would always say, "There again,"  -after everything, before everything.

This is not a criticism.  I got that man's back.

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My new boss said today...”beatings will continue until morale improves!”  

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Our Laboratory Rush Job Policy:

If you want it bad, you get it bad.
And the worse you want it, the worse you get it.


peace

"Oh well, I wasn't using my civl liberties anyways."

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If you want it fast, you may get it half-fast.

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Indeed, ewh.

"Oh well, I wasn't using my civl liberties anyways."

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Here's the one I always pass on to the over aggressive "Need it NOW!" managers:

GOOD
FAST - CHEAP
Pick 2

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- by Albert Einstein

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One that I hear being used is "we will cross that bridge when we come to it"
Realistically you only can cross the bridge when you come to it.

Bruce L Farrar.
Works Engineering Manager
Marshalls Mono PLC.Brookfoot Works.
Halifax W.Yorks UK

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AS long as you don't burn that bridge when you come to it.

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              Wm. Phelps Eno, ca. 1928

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What if you come to it and decide to turn back?

Can you burn it after you crossed it?

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The sweetness of low price is long forgotten, while bitterness of poor quality lingers forever.

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One of my bosses favourites is "singing from the same hymn sheet"

That and the use of the term "crippler" to mean anything which isn't going as planned.

We have a whole raft of them though, usually accompanied by people using the wrong word altogether.

"datal" - its the datal solution (look it up, this is meaningless)
"galvanize" - when you mean consolidate, rather than zinc coating things
"total engagement" the favourite of the moment

And my personal favourite, the addition of "adge or idge" onto the end of the word for no reason at all.
stoppage = plant stop or outage
spillage = no you mean a spill, spillage is the material that has been spilled not a spill.
wasteage = waste is the word

there are too many of these but I cringe every time I hear someone use them.

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Hmmm.
"Singing from the same Hymn sheet" would drive me nuts.
Never met "Datal" or "Crippler", but the others seem fairly normal.
"Galvanise" is to "stimulate" but yes, if he uses it to mean consolidate, a problem.
The others, however irritating, do seem to be part of common parlance.

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

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Quote (Engineering to IT):

Please investigate the problems and find a solution, our business plan for 2006 is counting on these offices to effectively complete their tasks.  It’s time we give these guys something better than bearskins and stone knives.

Quote:

why are we so busy thinking outside the box, when all we really need to do is put a prettier bow on the old box, and it'll sell just fine

Quote:

due to our market position and an unforseen rise in health care costs, employee health care contribution is will increase to 100%

Quote:

...our strategic decision is to change course...

Quote:

...cultivating and growing the relationships and alliances with key industry partners will be a catalyst for achieving our goals

and my absolute favorite

Quote:

... now let me play devils advocate for a minute...

Wes C.
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When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions...

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the term "savings/disbenefits ratio" seems to better fit many manager's attitudes "than cost/benefit ratio."

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     "...students of traffic are beginning to realize the false economy of mechanically controlled traffic, and hand work by trained officers will again prevail."

              Wm. Phelps Eno, ca. 1928

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The Ultimate Corny Management Saying

Although the formation of a distinct denomination around him was a gradual development, Charles Russell was one of the chief founders of the church known as Jehovah's Witnesses.  

His followers believed him when he (Russell) said that in 1914 the millennium would occur and righteousness would be restored to the earth. As 1914 approached, he, and his successor, changed the date to 1915, 1916, 1924, 1928, and on and on to the present day! If you ask a “believer” about this, they'll give you the ultimate management corny saying, "Well, the Watchtower (home office management) is reaching different levels of enlightenment."

Dude!  I have got to remember that one!  The next time we completely fail on some assigned task and the client calls me on it, I am going to have to quote, “Well, we are reaching new levels of enlightenment on that project.”  This is bound to pacify the client and get us more engineering business.  Why wouldn’t it?  It got the JWs 13 million followers!  Right?!

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They did better than the Seventh Day ADventists who appear to have given up once the appointed day came and went with no big happening.

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

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During a site wide meeting senior manager trying to improve moral etc.

 "there is no I in team"

From the engineers corner of the crowd an unidentified voice

"no but there is a U in bullshit"

meeting disolves in laughter.

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The Seventh Day Adventists may have appeared to have given up once the appointed day came and went with no big happening, but later they did a little history revision and claimed that the Coming DID happen but it was invisible!

That's another one I plan to use on my boss, clients, etc.  That report/project/whatever is finished, its just invisible!

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It's "Intuitively obvious."

-- Used when lacking proof, but needing to reach a desired conclusion.

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We've got a manager who regularly insists on bringing in  nearly impossible jobs and referring to them as

 ' a piece of cake'.

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I'm so sick and tired of hearing our production associates using the phrase "Git-R-Done". It was funny when I heard the comedian say it on tv. But when the people who actually live the lives he portrays it really makes me sick to my stomach when I hear them speak that way.

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You know you can't fix stupid (from the other comedian)...
LOL sorry spsu97 I just had to throw that in...

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99 posts in this thread so far?....I think it's time to drive this one accross the line

zeusfaber - You cracked me up with management consultant infestation.

"no problems, only opportunities"

"key stakeholders"

"factoid"

"gap analysis"  

And my personal favorite: "What are you working on right now?"  (I could remind you of the last five things you asked me to do that I haven't even gotten to yet, but would it make any difference?)

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You need to...
 make a full court press
 have all hands on deck
 turn up the volume (with obnoxious hand gestures)
 burn the midnight oil
 leave no stone unturned
until this problem is resolved.

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Oh, hang on......

.... we haven't got stakeholder buy-in yet.

Perhaps that's why we aren't pushing against an open door.

A.

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zeusfaber -

can you go ahead without stakeholder buy-in or is that going to be a showstopper?

RE: Corny Management sayings.....

Really depends whether we're looking at this in big handfuls (big hand - small map stuff), or if we're down in the weeds.

A.

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