One nice thing about a UK office is that biz speak is used usually for the sake of humour and even if it is used seriously, everyone knows it’s bullshit.
Americans often don’t get the joke. An exception is a friend at my old gig who told me he had a contest with someone else to make up biz speak words to see who could get their manager to start using them first.
Some people are more suseptable than others to the influences of biz wank vocab. My boss often, bless him will say, “I’m sorry, I don’t want to randomise you.” (Spread you too thin.)
Tim sent out an e-m today that created an inspired string. . . he included the font colour and bolding.
From: Tim
Guys,
I wanted to reach out to you, and synch regarding the SMACK PACK. We have all ramped really well despite a major challenge of losing two members – Nicole and Khaled.
I’m going to schedule a brainstorm session for us to discuss and go over our meeting with Mark and Julie… but in the interim I thought I would pencil in topics for our meeting…
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From: Ross
Thanks for netting that out Tim. You’ll make a “seagull manager” yet. Do you have a date for the brainstorm, though, as Im a bit short of bandwidth right now.
Ross
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From: Tim
I don’t want to make this project into a black hole but lets not get Nonlinear about this.
Hope this is starting to Resonate.
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From: Al
Tim, stop it you tosser.
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From: Tim
Al, I am your Father.
