Field Report
On Monday of last week I attended a meeting. The substance of the meeting is irrelevant to this report. In fact, the substance of the meeting may have been irrelevant to all who attended as well.
Here is a short list of phrases that made me grind my teeth in helpless frustration.
- go forward (used 3 times)
- round table (used 2 times. It turns out that it wasn't actually a meeting, it was a round table).
- pushback
- communication channel
- go around the block on this
- impact (used as a verb. This annoys me.)
- ascertain and determine (used at least twice. You shall not use these verbs by themselves. They must to be together as a pair, and in this order).
- that being said (used at least twice. Another pet peeve of mine)
- keep us in the loop
- throw/punt it over the wall
- speak offline (this means discuss after the meeting)
- touch base
- churn
- methodology
- captured (you can't just write things down in the minutes, you have to capture things)