Sayings quoted incorrectly

[MoKelly]

I'm just a plain 'ol working guy that works in a field that uses pretty basic and direct language. However, during the pandemic, my wife who works in the corporate echelon of a large international company has been working from home and I get to hear the conference calls. It's almost comical to hear some of the people in these calls. It's like many of them are trying to dazzle the fellow attendees by trying to sound "hip" with their vernacular. It's funny how certain phrases or words will creep in for a while and then get phased out as new jargon comes around. I wish I could remember some of the best, but here's a few:

"OK Bob, let me unpack what you just said...."

"We need to consider the optics of this problem..."

"it sounds like we have a violent agreement on the issue..."

"we need to see if the juice is worth the squeeze..."

"we need to become a change agent..."

"circle back, align, pivot, in the weeds, bandwidth, ping, holistic, organic etc. etc."

Funny. Seems like lots of material for a comic strip!

MoKelly

 

[dodge man]

I’ll circle back and take a more holistic organic approach and try to align that with my thoughts as I do some free range yoga later.

 

[the old grind]

I'll think about this going forward but at the end of the day it's all about having the right datta and taking agency of the best processies.

 

[gsganzer]

I used to be an engineering director for an international company in the oil/gas, power generation industry. We're pretty straight forward folks. The company hired a new VP and he brought some of his cronies from his old company that made tractors (completely different industry culture). Whenever we went into meetings, they'd be using terms or phrases that were completely foreign to the rest of us.

I remember one meeting in particular where we were discussing a fit-up and tolerance issue in the fabrication shop. The VP and his cronies said they'd apply a "poka-yoke" to it. My buddy and I made a sideways glance at one another but didn't say anything. As soon as we got out of the meeting we both asked each other, "what the heck is a "poka-yoke"? Turns out it's what the rest of us would call a "go/no-go gauge".

 

[Hay Dude]

.......THREE LETTER WORD jobs, J-O-B-S, jobs.

 

[cqaigy2]

Not sure this has been mentioned or is in the correct thread, but what is it when people talk of thawing out something like a steak, they say they are going to de-thaw the steak. I can see thaw, or even defrost, but de-thaw? And is it a regional thing?

 

[MoKelly]

Not sure this has been mentioned or is in the correct thread, but what is it when people talk of thawing out something like a steak, they say they are going to de-thaw the steak. I can see thaw, or even defrost, but de-thaw? And is it a regional thing?

I’ve never heard de-thaw. In the Midwest I’ve always just heard “take the meat out of the freezer to thaw”.

MoKelly

 

[bcp]

I've heard unthaw, never dethaw.

Bruce

 

[Big Barn]

Wouldn't unthaw mean "freeze"?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I've heard unthaw, never dethaw.

Bruce

Hah! My Mom used to use the word "unlaxed".