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The sun sets on proper language
It is never too late to bring you the Office Angels’ survey on office jargon, and the latest “essential office buzzwords” that hopefully you will not be hearing in 2008.
Alongside “thought grenade” and “let’s sunset that”, we have “information touchpoint” as a replacement word for a meeting, and “little ‘r’ me” meaning “reply to my email”.
Beside the startling idea that a recruitment company finds any of this rubbish essential, we are curious to find anyone who works in
a place where thought grenades are genuinely lobbed, ideas are sunsetted, and you really have to attend information touchpoints – especially if the person saying the words frames them in air quotes.
Let us know – or, as one of the buzzwords-to-avoid puts it: “Open the kimono”.
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