Crap 'Buzzwords'

Normally it means transferring someone internally to do a job, and then hiring someone externally to do the job of the person that has just transferred.

Backfill is, possibly, a bit easier to say.

Or it means stick a thumb up someone's jacksie.

i always thought backfill meant permanent staff member doing a project contractor dogsbody required to sweep up any shit that crops up until the project ends

We had one of those for a while, apparently because they're cheaper to insure than if you had a full-on kitchen in the office. #hotsoup

In that case try your hardest not to develop a problem with drugs or alcohol,which subsequently requires your attendance at 12 step meetings where you will hear that phrase repeated ad nauseum....ON A DAILY BASIS.

'flat white'

Flat is Left-pondian for matt, isn't it? So matt white rather than gloss. Apologies if context makes this bollox.

Flat white would't be a buzzword if people knew how to make one.

Most places you ask for a flat white and you get a 'frothy coffee'
You ask for a cappuccino and you get a 'frothy coffee'
You ask for a latte and you get... yeah?

a lot of people also assume a flat white is just a coffee with milk, ie 'flat' - no bubbles

I'm sticking to vanilla bullshit these days...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQdP_NC4EtY

I just discovered this thread and I really hate this one. If anything "breakout area" only applies to when I'm outside my place of work when I shouldn't be.

...over here in construction we use "backfill" rather than "fill that hole you just dug back up". I don't mind it in that context at all.

d*loitte would drive you nutsack. they have names for the breakout areas. the one on my floor is called "the hollow". apt.

Uh, so that's where they got it from. For a double whammy they recently renamed ours the "passion area".

i have worked in an office with an 'ideation station'.

the office spotify list was called 'cunt island'. so they had that going for them.

"Please provide updates as part of your weekly reporting cadence."

lolwhut

The trainees in my place work in "The Pit". Somewhat more realistic.

...over here in construction we use "backfill" rather than "fill that hole you just dug back up". I don't mind it in that context at all.

My dad had a summer job 'backfilling' motorway bridges - filling in by hand (well shovel) the gap left Inbetween the road and the new bridge. So I assumed in meant filling in a gap left by a bigger piece of work.

Yeah, that sounds about right: Dig a big hole, build a bridge abutment in the middle and 'backfill' around it. I think I would say 'fill' for building up a new area of ground, like a motorway embankment or something.

Never heard it in the context of filling vacancies though!

Going through a German/English contract that the contractor has clearly run through Google Translate for the English version - they have actually managed to describe outsourced subcontractors as 'vicarious agents'.

I hate Google Translate so, so much.

Ich hasse es, Google Translate so , so sehr.

Ich hasse es, Google Translate so , so sehr.

If this is a product of Google Translate, it's testament to its inability to translate even a simple sentence correctly. The "es" and comma after it are faulty grammar.

Indeed.

'Covered Off'

A high up keeps on using it in emails and it boils my gears.

"boils my gears"
Tsk.