What phrase do you wish people would stop using?

@Thrust Deliverables? Hero solutions? Workstreams? (That last one has an air of something interminable about it)

@supersnipe Deliverable. Errr.. Just complete and deliver it.

Hero solutions: Everyone else has gone wrong and has no idea how to correct it.

Workstream: Just "work"?


This or similar is often sign-written lorries (you can tell how monotonous it is to follow one for mile after mile): "We are a world-class provider of logistics solutions". No you aren't. You are simply a contract haulier.

@supersnipe Oy! 🫣

@ArishMell

Calling co workers your team. If you don’t wear uniforms on a field you ain’t no team

@Thrust Well, no, not really.

Team-work can cover a huge range of activities, professional or amateur, and many do not need uniforms or a field.

There are many types of employment or activities like competition sports that do use them, but the phrase refers to the way a group works together, not what it wears nor what it does and where.

So I don't regard that phrase as necessarily management or sports jargon.

However, I have noticed a curious fashion in supermarkets for the staff to be called "colleagues".