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Do You Think These IT slang words and sayings get used to often?

NetworkingStudent

IT slang and sayings that get over used way to often in IT world.
Anyone else think these words and sayings are used way too often in the IT/ business world?

Epic

Rockstar

Awesome

Gameover

Sayings:

Thrown under the bus..

It is what it is………..

Can anyone else think of any other over used saying or words used in the IT or business world, that just get on your nerves?

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Comments

Monkerz

"FAIL"

I *^&*(^*&% hate when people say that!

pitviper

The constant "high five" or "go team" from executives makes me want to drink a gallon of vodka mixed with anti-freeze every time I hear it…

I use "epic fail" a lot because people are just that dumb

NetworkingStudent wrote: »

Gameover

Hey nothing wrong with gameover! As long as it's used in the Aliens context: "gaaaaame over maaan"

CodeBlox

Not so much in the I.T. world, but in gaming "You're so bad!!!", "QQ more", or "You're a try hard" is so god damn annoying. And for the record, those sayings you've listed apply to many people outside of the I.T. realm as well. And it does get old eventually

Reseven

Win...

Epic win

Full of win

hex_omega

"I can haz <whatever>"

Asif Dasl

FTW - For the win

And Charlie Sheen's "winning" also does my head in...

Jack2

The Cloud...

Cisco Inferno

Jack2 wrote: »

The Cloud...

Hypntick

Jack2 wrote: »

The Cloud...

/nerd rage!

rogue2shadow

Box

Fail

Chris:/*

Jack2 wrote: »

The Cloud...

Agreed!

and

Your solution is virtualization!

Slowhand

My favorite: robust.

alan2308

Brand, and all it's derivatives.

DevilWAH

these arn't IT slang, these are nerd and geeky slang....

wait till you get to ITL, then sundly every one starts talking in three letter words...

SteveLord

Agreed. None of that is particularly IT slang at all.

However, I would have to go with The Cloud.

Plantwiz

SteveLord wrote: »

Agreed. None of that is particularly IT slang at all.

However, I would have to go with The Cloud.

I agree that this has little to do with "IT" I hear many of these too frequently in everyday places...(so summarizing it to 'business' lingo probably has a place).

The one that drives me absolutely nuts is "I wanted to 'reach out' to you"...or "I'll have to 'reach out' to John Doe..." or "We should 'reach out"...

I wasn't a fan of 'touching base' but why 'reach out'?

I'll add the "oops, My Bad' comment, which seems to have died out, but 10 years ago that one make me cringe.

Clear sign of too many sales people, too many meetings and just too many people worrying about hurting someone's feelings or not covering their butt about something.

Mike-Mike

"team player" makes me want to stab someone in the neck

mikedisd2

Anything "epic" and "comedy gold".

There's also pluralising things like "the Googles and the Twitters".

bertieb

Plantwiz wrote: »

The one that drives me absolutely nuts is "I wanted to 'reach out' to you"...or "I'll have to 'reach out' to John Doe..." or "We should 'reach out"...

I wasn't a fan of 'touching base' but why 'reach out'?

+1 Urgghhhhh. I will gladly 'reach out' to the person who coined that phrase.......

Mishra

How about after every issue, your management says something like:

'We need to fix that and make it better'

Nice management there COO. The inspiration is flowing.

Another phrase...

'Sorry for the short notice, but we need this COB today'

blargoe

value add

rsutton

Like vulgarity, I don't like it when people overuse memes, it makes me think they either are unable to think for themselves or they have "issues" that they hide behind.

PC509

The Cloud is my #1, followed by Epic and then fail.

Hey nothing wrong with gameover! As long as it's used in the Aliens context: "gaaaaame over maaan"

That's exactly what I thought of when I saw that.

As long as we don't migrate our virtualization into the cloud for an epic win for the management home run, we're on base.

it_consultant

I hate 'cloud', who came up with that bullcrap?

JBrown

I am an "open minded" person man, says a racist dude when it comes to a choice of beef or chicken meet. There is no point in explaining to people like him "WTF" being open minded means.

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Jack2

Jack2 wrote: »

The Cloud...

Two more for me...

SLA and metrics

oh how about overused IT statements:

"My MAC can't get viruses."