Ultimate buzzword phrase

[sammyg2]

I read an e-mail a few days ago from one of my bosses. My head is still spinning.
He has single-handledly coined the ultimate buzzword phrase, one that will never be topped. Drum roll ........ here it is:

"Re: resourced basis backlog manpower loading models".

I'm surprised my head didn't just up and explode after reading that e-mail.
I would provide more info to put it in context, but there is no context. That phrase had absolutely nothing to do with anything. Simply amazing. He makes about $150k a year plus bonus/perks.

[Heel n Toe]

Is it bigger than a loaf of bread?

[masraum]

Huh?

[M.D. Holloway]

I like it, I got this gem the other day "Green-based Performance Biased" - not sure what the intent of that one is either.

[K. Roman]

Guess you had to be there.

[Rikao4]

anybody have the gut's to go back and ask WTF does this mean...


Rika

[lendaddy]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

I like it, I got this gem the other day "Green-based Performance Biased" - not sure what the intent of that one is either.

Simple, that one means "add some environmental-granola lingo to our normal product to hook the enviro-suckers."

Get on it, stat.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

anybody have the gut's to go back and ask WTF does this mean...


Rika

Not me, but I did write it across the top of the whiteboard in my office. He's bound to see it sooner or later.

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by lendaddy

Simple, that one means "add some environmental-granola lingo to our normal product to hook the enviro-suckers."

Get on it, stat.

Just found the money line for the new veggie based hydraulic fluid! Thanks Len!

[Porsche-O-Phile]

You know he sat up all night thinking that up just to see the look on peoples' faces...

[Jim727]

A "Dilbert Moment", Sammy.

[The Gaijin]

Good thing we still study grammar, Latin and critical thinking at all levels of education.

[kmhemi]

I have no idea WTF he just said.

[Superman]

I have no idea what that means.

I probably don't share you guys' disdain for buzzwords and buzz phrases. Sure, they can be taken to ridiculous extremes. And of course, Office Space has made them funny. But I hear, and use, some of them all the time. I might tell somebody about a series of conversations in which I set the stage for him/her to get a good reception when they talk to so-and-so. After telling them about that and suggesting they place the critical phone call, I might tell them I "Tee'd it up for you."

And so forth. Buzz words and phrases can be useful. Or they can be meaningless, like the one in the opening post of this thread.

[gassy]

In going forward, let's all make it our personal commitment to think outside the box so we don't have to have another Come to Jesus meeting.

[Jim727]

I'm constrained to agree. We should partner in this and apologize for any inconvenience this thread may have caused.

[M.D. Holloway]

You have created a true share of mind, with a great press trowards a work-out while embrassing the value share that brings us to bat and lays it on the line where the rubber meets the road.

[sammyg2]

I expected the collective experience trust here to partner and by means of that synergistic force, come to a collective consensus Re: the root cause meaning of the above-mentioned phrase.

[legion]

On my cube wall is a chart showing all of the terms for iterative development invented on our project:

-Release
-Drop
-Track
-Package
-Iteration
-Wave
-Version
-Cluster
-Clump

On my white board, are the following quotes:

"Cluster and clump sound like something in my cat's litterbox!"

"I think they're trying to tell us this whole project is $h!t."

[Mo_Gearhead]

QUOTE: " Re: resourced basis backlog manpower loading models".
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Think of it as Chinese. You read from right to left.

What he's referring to are: computer simulations (models) of non-useable (backlog)man-hours (wasted) based on previously documented company history.

(He means ...you're all a bunch of loafers. Get to work! )