Synergy, proactive....enough!

[TB4000]

These catchphrases are used by my boss almost everyday to describe us peons when we aren't doing something to his liking...."you guys need to be more proactive"...."if you can maintain a greater level of synergy, you'd get this project off the ground in no time"....ok, man. Please stop acting like you're some hip new-age office guru and just assign our meaningless tasks, please.

[bluemonq]

You office sounds like the perfect place to play buzzword bingo:
http://isd.usc.edu/~karl/Bingo/bbbingo.html
thank goodness for dilbert! here's the software if you have a palm pilot:
http://www.monkeyboys.org/pilot/
the original dilbert strip:
http://www.monkeyboys.org/images/dilbert-buzzword.jpeg

[rice cracker]

I worked at an office once where they said, "Think outside the box" waaaay too much. Everything was think outside the box.

[Chester]

Personally, I'm a big fan of motivating people to be proactively synergistic. I usually tell my folks to make sure to open as much of their bandwidth as possible to do their due diligence so that we can realize maximum ROI.

[rice cracker]

Personally, I'm a big fan of motivating people to be proactively synergistic.

You're not thinking outside the box.

[Chester]

You're not thinking outside the box.Damn you're fast...catching me between edits.

[ism]

Coming from a dotcom, I'm experiencing a total 180 now. My boss told me three days ago to slow down. Fortunately, I've never worked at a corporation that seriously tossed that shit around. How do you hold in the laughter?

[tommyhtown]

Coming from a dotcom, I'm experiencing a total 180 now. My boss told me three days ago to slow down. Fortunately, I've never worked at a corporation that seriously tossed that shit around. How do you hold in the laughter?

Working at an insane pace for 20+hours a day is something that I never miss about the dotcom period. all that is for my dream of my company IPO that never came.

[tommyhtown]

I gag nowadays when someone says motivational crap at the office. Not a good career move, but oh well.

[rice cracker]

http://server4.uploadit.org/files2/160104-untitled.jpg

[SynRG]

"Synergy" is a chic-term in the workplace now? I find that particularly amusing...

[rice cracker]

It's a trend like any other trend, I guess. It's just annoying to have people use words and phrases they don't really understand, or that I don't understand.

[mr. x]

TB, should make a comicstrip, call it "Blackbert" :tongue:

[TB4000]

TB, should make a comicstrip, call it "Blackbert" :tongue:


Haha...I'd still have to beat the Boondocks as far as clever ass writing though.http://www.students.miami.edu/~spell/index_files/image007.jpg

I can't compete with these dudes just yet.

[bluemonq]

<3 boondocks. have every single strip in a folder on my desk. the street name thing was the best