The corporate world has led to the evolution of another dialect of English called the Corporate lingo. It creeps in effortlessly in all meetings and discussions in our offices in the form of phrases or words. These phrases are cliched and sound irritating when we hear them more often.
How often have you heard your colleagues say these during meetings or other interactions in the office?
- I will sync up with you later
- I will patch up so and so on the call
- Block my calendar
- I have a hard stop at < future time>
- Having said that
- Period, After a sentence
- Blah blah blah
When people say, I will sync up with you later; one of the questions that arise in my mind is, are we machines or computers to sync up? It is equivalent to saying that he would talk to the other person later or catch up with the other person, yet another corporate lingo.
During teleconferences, one might have heard people saying that they would patch someone through. It is nothing but connecting to a third person in a conference call. Instead, we could say; Let me conference so and so on this call. It is plain and simple.
How often has your colleague asked you to block his calendar when you want to have a quick discussion? This person might be working out of the same bay, still says, “Please block my calendar” instead of giving some time for the conversation.
Sometimes, at the beginning of an audio conference or a physical meeting, there would always be someone who hints that they are super busy by saying; I have a hard stop at <future time>. When the meeting exceeds the hard stop time, and on realization, this person would tell again. “I have a hard stop at <future time>”.
Oh, you just said now, why do you have to make it redundant. Another common corporate lingo is “Having said that…” One makes a statement and then follows by saying, ‘Having said that…’ Yes, you said that, and we were listening. Just go ahead.
“This is what it is. Period!” Do you want to have the last word in a discussion? All you need to say is period. Say something and say “Period” and be happy that you made an emphatic point.
I can go on saying blah blah blah. When you run out of words or want to finish your sentence faster, go ahead and say blah blah blah.
I am sure we would have heard a lot of these in our corporate life. If we all communicate without this kind of jargon, life would be easy for all our colleagues. Have you come across more of these corporate lingoes? If yes, please let us know in the response section below.
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