Most annoying office jargon revealed

[Jazzy]

Researchers asked 2,000 people about their opinions on office jargon and the phrases they find most irksome.

The study reveals that men are most likely to use jargon on a regular basis (43% compared with 11% of women). The sales team is the most likely department to use office jargon (51%), followed by marketing/creative (37%) and IT (29%).

The top 10 most irrritating office jargon in full:

1. Social notworking - messing around on Facebook and Twitter to avoid doing work - 26%
2. Deja brew - offering to make someone a cup of tea when you know for a fact they've just had one in the hope they will decline - 21%
3. Blue sky drinking - an unlimited free bar at a work party - 18%
4. Drainstorm - a poorly organised workshop, where everyone leaves feeling deflated - 15%
5. Human desourcing - sacking people - 12%
6. Jambivalence - ignoring a printer blockage in the hope that someone else will fix it - 12%
7. Google naps - using Google to work out what time colleagues in the US will be sleeping, to avoid them replying to emails - 11%
8. WTF?! - the realisation that it is only Tuesday, and you have 'Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?!' still to do - 9%
9. Stock home syndrome - pinching stuff from the office - 7%
10. Shout-of-office - Someone who wants every single person in the building to know they are off on holiday - 6%

Source

Have you heard or used any of these annoying office jargons? If so, which one/ones?

 

[DrLeftover]

I worked in a technology centered office for 15 years or so.

I only heard one of these, "WTF", and it wasn't in the way listed here.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

People are so petty. Petty enough to make a list like this.