Healthy Living by Kirstie_McIntosh

For those of you that have made it to their places of work this morning in the midst of sub-zero snowdom you can play my little game. When and what was the last piece of 'office speak uttered in your workplace?  Well, if a recent study by Office Angels is anything to go by it won't be more than a few minutes. And, it seems, that this office jargon is infiltrating the workplace so much so that employees spend their day confused and stressed. Hold on, scratch that, let me use insert appropriate buzzwords...

Workers refer feeling "stressurised" (that's a mixture of pressure and stress) and often want to "flag" problems.

Now to be honest I don't really mind the jargon, as long as the job gets done, does it really matter what words were used to get there? Also in the past whenever I have encountered a little bit of 'blue-sky speak' I kind of like it, as long as real instruction can be gleaned from the cliché.

However, I do have to draw the line somewhere - as the following pieces of business jargon cited in the research are ridiculously way out of the box...

We need the right pin numbers - meaning we need it to work

A lighthouse on a cloudy night - coming up with a good/bright idea

Let's touch base about this offline - let's meet up face to face

I think someone needs a bite of the reality sandwich - someone needs to think a bit more practically.

Let's run that idea up the flagpole and see if it flies - simply trying out an idea

Let's not try to build a chestnut fence to keep the sand-dunes in - face a problem head on, rather than battling it unsuccessfully

But, this one is the real corker, my personal fave of the bunch...

I'm coming into this with an open kimono - throwing an idea out into the open but being open to criticism.

But this post would 'have all its ducks in a row' without the inclusion of the aficionado of office speak himself ...

Lets touch base again soon online, it might be for a week or so as I jet off on to the slopes tomorrow for a week's skiing, oh the irony.  The moral of the story is be careful what you wish for, this Cornish witch wished for snow and crikey did she get it. Fingers crossed for a momentary thaw round lunchtime tomorrow.