Post by Flatypus on Aug 21, 2009 5:13:27 GMT
Lifted straight from New Scientist Eshly, Armimber this as The Honeywell Buzzphrase Generator, six or so columns of gobbledegook (Or is that racist now - gobblede-Oriental) on wheels (literally) that one (or more) could spin to provide some meaningless verbiage in the manner of Consequences looking impressive to those ascared to say the Emperor was naked. There were Computer and Management and Engineering versions I think.
DOES cascading synergistic jargon make your brain hurt, too? Feedback has on occasion resorted to handing out corporate buzzword bingo cards to enliven presentations by managers in suits.
They took hours to set up. But thanks to the marvels of information technology, no more! Go to www.robietherobot.com/buzzword.htm and you will be rewarded with a fresh card each time you visit. The top row of the one in front of us now reads "enable, geo-targeted, game plan, dot-com, best practice", which sounds perfect for a presentation on monetising the user-interactivity of Interweb 3.1, or the like.
Print off bingo slips, hand them to colleagues enduring the meeting with you... and advise them to try to avoid shouting "Bingo!" too loudly when the presenter has completed a row or a column of jargon. Failure to exercise such self-restraint could result in a dynamic downsizing denouement - known in American English as a pink slip, and to Brits as a P45. In that unhappy event, though, the ex-colleagues could always check www.robietherobot.com/jobtitle.htm for innovative income-stream identifiers: it has just suggested to us that we might seek work as a "Graphic Filtering Guru" or a "Dot-Com Evolution Administrator".
DOES cascading synergistic jargon make your brain hurt, too? Feedback has on occasion resorted to handing out corporate buzzword bingo cards to enliven presentations by managers in suits.
They took hours to set up. But thanks to the marvels of information technology, no more! Go to www.robietherobot.com/buzzword.htm and you will be rewarded with a fresh card each time you visit. The top row of the one in front of us now reads "enable, geo-targeted, game plan, dot-com, best practice", which sounds perfect for a presentation on monetising the user-interactivity of Interweb 3.1, or the like.
Print off bingo slips, hand them to colleagues enduring the meeting with you... and advise them to try to avoid shouting "Bingo!" too loudly when the presenter has completed a row or a column of jargon. Failure to exercise such self-restraint could result in a dynamic downsizing denouement - known in American English as a pink slip, and to Brits as a P45. In that unhappy event, though, the ex-colleagues could always check www.robietherobot.com/jobtitle.htm for innovative income-stream identifiers: it has just suggested to us that we might seek work as a "Graphic Filtering Guru" or a "Dot-Com Evolution Administrator".
