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The craziest thing I heard a partner say was how do you cut an elephant? One slice at a time. Meaning how do you tackle a large problem? One step at a time. I also heard a director say there are many ways to skin a cat to mean there are many ways to solve a problem. Where did these expressions come from and they are super creepy!
These are super old sayings. In their time it was common but for people to still be using IS super creepy.
“Let’s not point a bazooka at a mouse.”
This is glorious
I wish people would stop boiling random oceans
No.1 cause of Global warming? 💁🏾♂️
Another one: “the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze” 💀
But really though, if you've got enough fruit, then what fruit isn't worth squeezing. Especially peaches if you know what I mean 🍑 😉
"How much runway do we have?" "I don't know but let's land this plane"
Every time I hear that I cringe, especially since I am a pilot. Yeah, who cares whether we can survive, let's just crash!
Rising Star
When people say “I’m out of pocket” as a way to say unavailable.
Out of pocket means acting crazy, and derived from a billiard ball flying out of the pool table pocket.
Proper use is “that person is acting out of pocket” aka that person is acting crazy. So odd when people say “I’m out of pocket”
In the UK we use “out of pocket” in relation to having paid for something which you haven’t been paid back for/ that didn’t bring you the expected benefit e.g. I paid for the plumber to come and fix the leaking pipe but it’s started leaking again two days later so now I’m out of pocket £60.
I’ve not heard it in the context of acting crazy before
Do you have some bandwidth... 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
There’s strategy here: it’s a nicer way of saying “I know you are stressed and overworked, but I don’t want to do this so I’m going to make you do it instead”
Pls fix
Give me the skinny on the situation 🤢🤮🤢
You laugh strategy manager, but imagine for just a moment that you lived in a world, a very cruel one, in which every morning your boss asked you for the "skinny".
Context? Definitely not innuendo or fat hate speech, but as you gaze off into the blue grey nothingness of a teams call your mind wanders places, only for you to jolt at the sound of your name - you ask "what?" - and there it is again, he reminds you that he wants the "skinny", and so the cycle continues.
Rising Star
Idk why but when people say cycles, it bothers the s of of me. "When you have some cycles, can you help with something? Like what?
What do bandwidth or cycles say that simply saying “when you have time” doesn’t say?
"Build the plane whilst flying it" - petrifying analogy
Do a search for the EDS commercial from 2000 on this, it’s on YouTube and it be of the best ads ever
Open the kimono, Chinese menu…
Hmmm, D3: You know a kimono is unisex, right? Kimonos are an outer garmet traditionally worn with a nagajuban underneath (so it isn't about picturing anyone disrobing). Are you saying only a particular race can wear a kimono?
The expression 'open the kimono' actually originated in feudal Japanese times and referred to the practice of proving that no weapons were hidden within the kimono (as was common practice back then)
So when someone says it, they mean that they aren't hiding anything. (Similar to the phrase "opening the books.") When you know the real history behind it, there is nothing racist or sexist about the phrase.
Found this as a footnote for a bubble chart: “Size of the balls indicate assets under management”.
This is the funniest! 🤣🤣🤣
“Sacred cow”…to a room full of Indian colleagues…
There’s a lot to unpack here
Is there a there there
Clichéd, but it’s a quote from Gertrude Stein. It’s a way of saying “you are ascribing value to something that isn’t really worth focusing on” … plenty of opportunity and good reason to say that in this industry.
- « Don’t sell the biscuit before hooking the fish. » well, you probably never went fishing lol.
- « Belt, suspenders, parachute. » where is the bulletproof vest and rifle?
- « Ham butter or butter ham sandwich, it’s the same. » not MECE, plus order is different.
- « There are no specifications. », in a testing context, sounds bad.
- « Put papa in mama. » and then?
- « It makes coffee. » great, I need one!
- « Gone by the door, got in by window. » spiderman?
- « Clients need shiny superstar. », no, the clients need the problem to be solved and a promotion.
- « Setup meeting. », with windows installer?
- « Crazies from client firm. », *rolling eyes*
- « It’s not yet ready. I can’t show it. », when is it dur?
- « Definition of Done. », right or wrong?
- « User stories are short, like 1-2 sentences. », and the development are not fit for validation?
- « The great chief said it », I knew you where on indiqn natives side, show the calumet.
- « We are not mongolians », really?
- « We need to address this. », formally or not?
- « Touch points », like touch and go?
- « Someone being formidable but with a need to be in the middle of the highway. », the highway to hell?
- « We build client personalized deliverables. », I hope so.
- « What a pleasure to see a man that knows the codes. », from a fellow (female) 😂
- « Client account opening. » with an already opened account 😂
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER!!! It makes me so mad. Just say you’ll tell me something!
🤣 KT, is know-how empowerment.
“That slide is a leg opener.”
"Open kimono" - super rough.
For this, like everything else, "we need to set the right cadence"
"We have to set the tempo to maintain the initiative"
Mil version:
"We have to maintain fire superiority to keep opfor in a constant state of dilemma"