Many of us have worked in a modern corporate environment. Of those, most will have encountered at least one manager who likes to use words like "leverage" and "paradigm". And of those, pretty much all will have gone away scratching their heads wondering what the hell it was that they just said.

Some examples are more egregious than others; for example, just now a domain came up in NoScript (it shall remain anonymous to protect the guilty) so as usual, I Googled it to make a decision about whether to allow it or add it to my ban list. You can guess what I did when the domain itself proffered the following description of its purpose in life:


:bonk:

I guess there's not really much point trying to work out why anybody would come out with rubbish like that since it can probably be taken for granted that it's to bamboozle and/or impress like-minded people when they actually have nothing useful to say, but does anyone else have any similarly amusing or bizarre travesties of the English language? In the meantime, I think I need a lie down and a couple of headache pills.

Personally, I think you need to semantically reevaluate your prodogical priorities regarding malfactational thought.

Me thinks they made use of this site

http://www.andrewdavidson.com/gibberish/?companyname=crapco

Nope. I've understood every word that came at me so far.




Except the words I don't know.

I'm not sure I should congratulate you on having such a talent!


:rofl:

I'll have to bookmark that.


I find it's not so much the words themselves as the sentences they're in that I tend to struggle with...

We need to holistically manage our hybrid ventures and remain fiscally proactive so that we know we're in the ballpark and outside the box.

Yeah... because this is relevant to this thread, right?

I don't know.. Fits the thread title perfectly though, doesn't it?

Ah, the wide world of corporate buzzwords, where products are called "solutions". You don't sell tiles, you sell kitchen "solutions".

:) Hilarious

That last part there, inside the ballpark, isn't that just another way of being inside the box? Which would make, whether the entire sentence or not I do not know, but make it somewhat of an oxymoron?

I know someone who is well up in the food chain of a corporation that produces a number of major brands of footwear who uses the site whenever he has to convey to the upper echelons the current quarterly conjecture according to the bi-annual reassessment of the net regional production ratio expenditure..

Ha, makes sense.

I don't think we're optimizing the utilization of the window of opportunity here.

Let's all touch base, draw a mind-map to synergize our KPIs and then just fly it up the flagpole to see who salutes.