Phrases that have pissed Ed off today
May. 28th, 2004 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueI've just had an email which has
"Since I'm not here next week, it would be good if you could spend an hour or two early next week..."
This annoys me. Pinpointing exactly _why_ is not so easy. Maybe it's because .. actually, I had other things I needed doing 'early next week'. Maybe it's because it's an order to do some work, just disguised and weaseled a bit.
"It would be good if you could stand there for 10 minutes whilst I beat the snot out of you with a baseball bat before telling you to fuck off and die".
"It would be good if you could just go and stand on that fire for a bit."
How about "Would you mind ..." "Can you please ..." "There's an important thingy on wednesday, and would like to claim the credit for implementing this project myself, but need you to put this in place for me first".
Bah.
The other 'phrase' that annoys me is the word cascade.
As in "here is some really important information. Please cascade through the organisation".
*AWOOGA* *AWOOGA* *AWOOGA* Manglement Wank Word WARNING.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cascade
Not a waterfall. Series of units? URGH.
What's wrong with 'distribute'. Could you 'distribute this information'.
Maybe it's the implication of 'downhill' that cascade implies that annoys me.
I suppose that it links too closely with "shit flows downwards". Only in this case it's bullshit rather than the more conventional 'stuff going wrong and picking up the pieces' kind of shit.
Ah well.
"Since I'm not here next week, it would be good if you could spend an hour or two early next week..."
This annoys me. Pinpointing exactly _why_ is not so easy. Maybe it's because .. actually, I had other things I needed doing 'early next week'. Maybe it's because it's an order to do some work, just disguised and weaseled a bit.
"It would be good if you could stand there for 10 minutes whilst I beat the snot out of you with a baseball bat before telling you to fuck off and die".
"It would be good if you could just go and stand on that fire for a bit."
How about "Would you mind ..." "Can you please ..." "There's an important thingy on wednesday, and would like to claim the credit for implementing this project myself, but need you to put this in place for me first".
Bah.
The other 'phrase' that annoys me is the word cascade.
As in "here is some really important information. Please cascade through the organisation".
*AWOOGA* *AWOOGA* *AWOOGA* Manglement Wank Word WARNING.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cascade
Not a waterfall. Series of units? URGH.
What's wrong with 'distribute'. Could you 'distribute this information'.
Maybe it's the implication of 'downhill' that cascade implies that annoys me.
I suppose that it links too closely with "shit flows downwards". Only in this case it's bullshit rather than the more conventional 'stuff going wrong and picking up the pieces' kind of shit.
Ah well.
