Thursday, June 11, 2009

Early Friday five.

Five buzzwhacky phrases from a pretty good book I read last night, in no particular order:

  • the "cc game" - passively aggressively copying your boss when resending a document you've already sent (and hand-delivered a paper copy of, and copied to the server with a link in the original email reply) to someone your boss reports to, and ending the email with an ingenuine "thanks!"
  • "keep me in the lopp" - a new take on an old phrase, as typed by a spelling-challenged upper manager
  • "deprotion" - a promotion sharing the hallmarks of a demotion
  • "does anyone want anything from the outside world?" - a common phrase uttered by non-management who are aching to get out of the office
  • "that doesn't work with my comfort level right now" - used by a manager to reject the simplest of requests that would make an employee's life more tolerable... AKA my new catchphrase
Not listed: Friday's FB status.

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