L/Rover hardly ever a issue....

Eyup, someone's swallowed a dictionary!

Why do we need to invent new words when their are perfectly adequate ones already in common usage? Or is it Modern are too darn lazy to find and use them? My favourite hate is 'ongoing' WTF is wrong with continuing? closely followed by 'vary' when they mean differ!

BUGGER! There

Add "upcoming" instead of "forthcoming", but what really grates with me is the use of "them" instead of "those".

And then of course north of the border they use

OUTWITH ( not even in my spell chucker )

I've even seen a Yuckshireman now resident in Scotland using it in emails

No probs.

enjoyed it :)

Yes, they're all pretty nasty pieces of work :/

I forgot my all-time most cringe-inducing piece of phraseology:

"Issue" when you mean "Problem". Amazing as it may be, I once worked for an American (what else?) company that actually *chastised* you for mentioning a "problem".

Perhaps even worse....

"There are no problems, only challenges". What mealy-mouthed utter claptrap - usually uttered by 'managers without a clue', who haven't yet had the corporate s**te beaten out of them. No, Virginia, sometimes there *are* problems, some of which are insoluable. About time you recognised reality! The 'smart manager' recognises that some 'issues' aren't worth pursuing, and they'd be better off to cut their losses. The 'dumb manager' clings to these meaningless platitudes, before being flung onto the funeral pyre of corporate failure.

More...

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". This is some vague attempt to 'delegate' responsibility for a cockup, pure and simple. This can be re-written: "I completely screwed up, and now I want you to carry the can for my uselessness. Even though I delegated your responsibility to a completely different set of tasks, I now want you to come to my rescue and save my bacon, even though I can't redefine your areas of responsibility because that would be an admission of failure".

The study of middle-management nonsense-speak could fill usenet on its own, I fear!

Thankfully, those that use such terminology are generally short-lived in their respective positions before the staff noticeboard notes that they have "left to take up new challenges" (yes, menial tasks *can* be new challenges for middle-management drones who actually believe their 'motivational' phraseology), leaving the crumbling edifice of their failures behind for others to clean up - usually their 'underlings' - before the next stuffed suit arrives.

The shrewd manager who is there to do a real job - like build company profits and/or expand the business - recognises limitations where they exist, builds on capability, concentrates on the achievable, and does not base their decision-making on wishful thinking and mindless 'mantras'.

Another:

"Right-sizing" an operation. Loosely translated: "We screwed up royally and overinvested. Now we need to shrink the operation to the extent where the shareholders won't notice the loss."

I put it all down to too much tie wearing and chardonnay.

My 2c (with tongue in cheek).

TTFN (or is that another over-abbreviation?)

I hate that as well, surely a "problem" is something that needs working on and solving. An "issue" is just something inconvenient but doesn't really require any attention.

Not flung on the funeral pyre but promoted as they are fluent in management speak.

Heh, you've too much time on your hands. Entertaining but true.

Nah... I wrote it whilst eating dinner.

:)