Crap 'Buzzwords'

FWIW I submit myself to this thread - my job title is Senior Product Evangelist, which I have never used, typically I introduce myself as the technical lead for [product].

It's very Silicon Valley, I might use it if I were in California, here it would simply make people throw up on me.

Someones gone to town on the font front there.

What’s a “June up”? Californian take on a flat white or something?

"town hall" to describe a meeting.

What’s a “June up”? Californian take on a flat white or something?

Heaven knows, this is in Londons famous London so could be anything.

Used by people who have never worked for a local authority.

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Missed a trick not making the 'T' a musical note.

A town hall is usually a meeting with customers/clients no?

A buzzword is usually something that's misapplied by people, no?

for us its basically a presentation by senior managers. Normally a quarterly update on what is going on but could also be where things like redundancy are announced.

It's an American phrase, they've been using it for the past 150 years or so for politicians to meet with their constituents. Don't know why people are using it over here though, we already have perfectly good words.

I've been editing a 122 slide presentation

Presentation? m8, it's a 'pack'

'Deck' or gtfo.

"Town hall". Just reminds me of

ergh... deck.

I don't regard buzzwords as misapplied because they implies they have some inherent meaning

I work for a US firm

My colleague called himself Head of Product for a while, which was a bit rich considering he did naff all to manage the PMs nor had any influence on the products beyond simply liking UI.

Dammit motivates the office.

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I also cannot abide this, but have to put up with it as my American colleagues use the term almost exclusively. I've mentioned it before, but I'm hearing 'grid' for 'spreadsheet' more often and it's making me ill.

Occasional Spreadsheet developer checking in. If I ever heard anyone say this, I'd be forced to secretly turn calculation to manual on all their spreadsheets.

Spreadsheet developer

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Happens a lot, it's a pretty glamorous job...

"We really need to get pen to paper and galvanize our plans for next year".

You know this genuinely means to make a corpse's limbs twitch by the generous application of electric current?