Let’s have a lunch and learn!

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    52 minutes ago

    The Q3 numbers have a life of their own. Growing, shrinking, zig zagging all over the place. Pushing needles, pulling levers. And fyi, the roi is tbd. high five synergy!

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    7 hours ago

    I heard “rightsizing” for the first time last year.

    I have no idea what knucklehead PR dumbass came up with that but it made the following layoffs even more unpalatable.

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      The only time I hear rightsizing is for cloud resources. I’ve never heard of it in human resources. That sucks.

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    8 hours ago

    Alright, team, let’s circle back and ensure we’re fully aligned on our north star objectives. We need to leverage synergy, engage in blue-sky thinking, and touch base on our pain points to drive mission-critical outcomes. But let’s not boil the ocean with unnecessary jargon - at the end of the day, we need to optimize our bandwidth for real, value-driven impact. If we keep moving the needle with this kind of thought leadership theater, we risk losing sight of our core competencies and drowning in a sea of meaningless buzzwords. Let’s pivot toward clear, actionable insights and sunset the overuse of strategic messaging before it becomes a blocker to true innovation. Instead of just playing the fast-follow game with every trending framework, let’s focus on original, high-impact execution that actually drives results.

    Thoughts? Chris, do you have any builds?

    No?

    Good. Then let’s action this and drive it across the finish line!

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    5 hours ago

    “Good catch!”

    Usually said when you bring up something that needs fixing, and said as a way to puff you up and not actually follow up on the problem.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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        41 minutes ago

        I don’t play Balatro but from what I know about it, the game probably uses it correctly, unless it has nothing to do with, like, playing two cards that work better when used together.

        In corpo speak. I’ve seen it used as a synonym for “energy.” Like after the crowd quiets down, “Wow! The synergy in the air tonight is electric!” makes me cringe so hard.

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      4 hours ago

      But specifically “How could we use AI?”. If you dont know you don’t need it. Also looking st you big tech.

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    11 hours ago
    1. Alignment
    2. Scalable
    3. Circle back

    If you use these regularly I KNOW the meeting you just booked me into should have been an email.

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      11 hours ago

      Huh why scalable? I feel like that applies to a lot of things, not just the corporate world.

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        I can’t remember last time I heard someone use it in a normal conversation, but in the corporate world I find it gets incredibly overused.

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          I guess it doesn’t bug me so much because it’s not so cringe and actually clearly communicates the point. We do in-house video editing at the company I work at, and when we talk about scaling we’re talking about making sure our processes hold when we add more and more people and increase our volume. It’s a growing company so I have to constantly talk about anticipating and buying things to make sure we don’t run into a wall with our growth.

          I guess this is less pushing back and more asking what word you would rather see?

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        I wouldn’t actually mind “circle back” if it wasn’t just used as cover to kick the can down the road.

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          For me the guy who always said it was a former boss and he was good at actually circling back, but sometimes it felt more like “fuck that for now.”

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        I always want to do things by email instead of a meeting, but have to admit the meeting is often necessary. Of course it wouldn’t be if people could actually read and comprehend a detailed email and if they could also actually communicate information into writing without expecting you to be their minds enough to make sense of the incomplete vague phases they hurriedly type.

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        I spend more time in meetings talking about the work I’m going to do, than doing the actual fucking work.

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          Bro I have my first “big company” job after working smaller places for over a decade. This feels so real. I’m dying.

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        Unless there is a need for faster communication or because it covers a topic that people have strong emotions about and need to see how others respond so they don’t assume the other person’s feelings about something. There are some cases where humans, being social animals, do need some interaction beyond words to accomplish coordinated tasks.

        The vast majority of meetings should be emails though. Just wish people actually read emails…

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    11 hours ago

    “Tribal knowledge.”

    • image: We, clan. Together, strong.
    • reality: Ask Tommy if he remembers how to reset the printer

    Though, I actually like this one. It’s a pretty cool phrase you can use anywhere.