"Perhaps her greatest role was playing herself."
― punning display, Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
"New York City is as much a character in the film as any of the actors."
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 3 May 2021 05:51 (three years ago) link
guys i'm in a zoom launching a new division at my work, are you ready? i'm going to document the phrases IN REAL TIME
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
we're all aware of the challenges of delivering at speed across the business
'i've started a yammer group'
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
i'd say approx 80% of this division is on slack
this meeting is unfortunately disappointingly plain-spoken, sorry to raise hopes
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
ah just copped a 'drive a successful vision going forward' at the end, nice one
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
lol fuck Yammer
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
ime yammer is a minefield of misplaced HR questions, IT complaints, and a few dudes' photobucket
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
I haven't yet figured out how to use the existence of Yammer for evil.
But it seems like it should be possible. We already have lots of ways of communicating and everyone needs to chameleon their way between them.
"Hey, I stopped by your office but you weren't there. I left a Post-it on your monitor."
"Oh, didn't you get my email?"
"Yeah, but I replied using Teams chat."
"Hmmm. I haven't been at my keyboard, maybe send a text next time."
"Well, I called your cell but you didn't answer, so I left a voicemail."
"Hmmm. I didn't get your voicemail so I messaged you in Skype."
"Huh. I saw that Skype message but Skype said you were offline."
"Oh, crap, I left my Skype on Do Not Disturb by accident."
If we can just get Yammer and Discord and Slack involved as well, no one will ever actually reach anyone because each expects that the other is using a different mode of communication.
― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
> 'i've started a yammer group'
either i was listening to the same announcement or there were a lot of Yammer groups created today (much to the amusement of everybody in the communal watch-a-long slack channel).
sadly i missed the morning one, which sounded like a car crash.
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
fuck "the narrative" forever. shut the absolute fuck up, everybody who insists on it all the time
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
v. tired of things being ’iconic’
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 May 2021 01:06 (three years ago) link
in these trying times, every timeline has its iconic narrative
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Thursday, 20 May 2021 01:08 (three years ago) link
You could say I'm a storyteller
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 May 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
fairly tired of things being "toxic" as well
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 20 May 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
some people call me Maurice
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 May 2021 03:17 (three years ago) link
enablement
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 May 2021 10:03 (three years ago) link
enablement is quite useful therapeutic jargon when it's reasonably employed in the job it was coined to do. when it goes feral, it has a tendency to shit on the carpet.
― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Thursday, 20 May 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
the chefs kiss thing annoys me
― brimstead, Thursday, 20 May 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
Recently the wildly popular corporate-speak vocab word “learnings” has infected my workplace, and I hate it. “We recently attended Marketing Fest ‘21, and we’d like to share some of our learnings with you”
― Dan I., Friday, 21 May 2021 02:04 (three years ago) link
Part of why I hate shit like this so much is that I know I’m susceptible to picking it up. I frequently find myself at a loss for an alternative to “deliverables”, for example.
― Dan I., Friday, 21 May 2021 02:06 (three years ago) link
Well that’s just it. Perhaps the best examples on this thread are words and phrases form which there is no acceptable alternative, because there are part of an annoying as shit avenue of thought.
― Alba, Friday, 21 May 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
For which
― Alba, Friday, 21 May 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
"Choiceful."
smh
Can't even
― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 May 2021 04:07 (three years ago) link
it's as ugly as Mitch McConnell, but at least it fits the rules of english
― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Friday, 21 May 2021 04:11 (three years ago) link
Yes but some perfectly good words - like selective, choosy, cautious, purposeful, intentional, and deliberate - were already there.
― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 May 2021 04:17 (three years ago) link
in case it isn't clear, I consider Mitch McConnell to be multi-dimensionally ugly
― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Friday, 21 May 2021 04:28 (three years ago) link
any product "reimagined"
― Displaced Intimacy Coordinator (punning display), Saturday, 22 May 2021 01:53 (three years ago) link
I’m not crying, you’re crying
― Sam Weller, Saturday, 22 May 2021 09:02 (three years ago) link
does reimagined smack of pretentious menus.I can see some benefit in trying to rework the good bits of what has become cliched. Which is what I assume is the motivation behind that process but done wrong it can come off as very pseud.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 22 May 2021 09:28 (three years ago) link
Xpost ugh yes
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 May 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
It's doesn't annoy the shit out of me or anything
i'm not even sure it's bad
but "rest in power" (seeing a lot of it wrt George Floyd today)...feels weird to me sometimes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
What's worse, "learnings", or "learns"?
Just say "lessons"!
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
Learnings is vile, and sounds like the person using it has filtered their dialogue into Google Translate and then back again.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
i always think of ralph wiggum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKg2ZzPKl2M
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
“All - “ as a salutation on an email
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
lol that’s funny to me. like:“Friends -“
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
xpost I do that when I don't know who is the right person to address for someone, idk what else would be any less awkward? like "COLLEAGUES? fellow employees? to whom it may concern?"
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
“Fuckers,”
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Group:
― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
I just say “Hi”
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
yep
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
― brimstead, Thursday, May 20, 2021 11:54 AM (six days ago)
agreed! Actually I think it is even more annoying than some of the most annoying words and phrases because it tends to be accompanied by gross non-verbal sounds ... like the only worse thing I can think of is if "choiceful" was accompanied by an armpit fart or something
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
chef's fart
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
people just missed putting their fingers in their mouths i guess
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
learnings sounds like you've taken a continuous practise and tried to break it down to something atomistic.misplaced plural like vinyls.Is it tied in with having gold stars for each piece you can identify when you should be trying to build up a more complex knowledge or something to that effect.
I've got the idea of experiential knowledge running through my head and the inherent inability to break everything down to actually teachable units without the experiential part being included. Also the map is not the territory and confusing the 2 is not a healthy process. I would be stuck with the idea taht one had to do the physical process and learn how it felt to do it right and how it felt to know where you were going wrong. Which breaks down to practise and trial and error. THough you do need an overarching narrative as to what you want the desired result to be. Still not something you arrive at from simply looking at a blackboard .Learnings seems to trivialise something that should have a better term but then again should maybe just be part of a wider learning curve anyway. Do you identify the increments and if so does that teach you totally the wrong focus?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 27 May 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
This doesn't annoy me but I just heard someone say, "Grit and bear it", and apparently this wasn't a mistake but something that people say... now... or maybe they always have?
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 31 May 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
Took me a moment to twig that they wouldn't have been talking about gritting roads with Gritty McGritworth McGrit the road gritter, but rather gritting teeth.
― adrian "voodoo" chiles (Matt #2), Monday, 31 May 2021 10:55 (three years ago) link