tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post7514123740071423866..comments2023-06-05T09:22:52.912+01:00Comments on Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Open: Cascade this to your readersPlease Don't Eat With Your Mouth Openhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246896544080806179noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-15241409238589205222011-01-23T08:21:33.479+00:002011-01-23T08:21:33.479+00:00LOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Oh, wait, sometimes I use that in ...LOLOLOLOLOLOL.<br /><br />Oh, wait, sometimes I use that in my emails to colleagues. More business speak? Damn!Elliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09130776138284979286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-73838597969832768402011-01-21T19:23:56.379+00:002011-01-21T19:23:56.379+00:00soup - haha, a timely couple of posts on that blog...soup - haha, a timely couple of posts on that blog. <br /><br />Yeah ok, so I kind of get cascade, but it still makes me point and laugh when I read it used in emails. ;)<br /><br />nutty - Hahaha, quite like that one.<br /><br />punctuation - I think that's the ideal way to do business. See I always thought I worked somewhere that you'd get laughed at for saying all this, but you do get a couple of people for whom these sort of words are part of their general language. That's big corporations for you though, I suppose.Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Openhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246896544080806179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-23101151763075130502011-01-21T17:17:26.276+00:002011-01-21T17:17:26.276+00:00Doh, typos:- "a twat" not "I twat&q...Doh, typos:- "a twat" not "I twat". Now I look like..a... well you get the picture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-9047161075571073632011-01-21T17:16:05.321+00:002011-01-21T17:16:05.321+00:00Thankfully I live in the US but write software for...Thankfully I live in the US but write software for a couple of UK-based entrepreneurs.<br /><br />The advantage of this is that main guy is an unreconstructed Essex boy, the lead support bod is psychotic Irishman and the other one I deal with the most is a Polish lunatic.<br /><br />Any attempt at office-speak is likely to be met with "stop talking like I twat" and long-winded aren't-I-clever discussions and spec documents (beloved by project managers as a form of intellectual masturbation) frequently draw the response "'old up, is this a four-pager?" (which is a scathing in-house insult).<br /><br />We once had a technical meeting where we fleshed out the details of a new product at the Munich Beer festival on a large converted fairground carousel, Pauleiner Weiss beers flowing freely (horses removed and replaced with a bar) as it slowly span around - I kid you not.<br /><br />Somehow we still seem to make shedloads of money without having to be arses about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-90729088043951306452011-01-21T16:40:05.952+00:002011-01-21T16:40:05.952+00:00I say you run that idea up the flagpole and see wh...I say you run that idea up the flagpole and see who salutes.<br /><br />*gets coat*nuttycowhttp://parlezvousmoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-54615216367319721952011-01-21T16:31:24.129+00:002011-01-21T16:31:24.129+00:00You should check out the recent posts from liarsan...You should check out the recent posts from liarsandlunatics.blogspot.com :)<br /><br />I generally agree, but the cascade one makes sense in my line of work because it's so hierarchical and there are 15,000 employees so they tend to work in layers. The top team feeds board info down to the next management team. Those guys take the info to their own management boards. The guys who make up those boards have team meetings with their technical leaders, who then have their own meetings with the engineers that report to them. The engineers at the bottom might even take it to their cats and dogs at home. But I think that is the only exception to the rule. Other then that, business speak is ridiculous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com