Wacky Manager Speak
Just a few little highlights….
“We’re not trying to boil the ocean here.”
“Do you have any bandwidth to work on a support call?”
“We need to interface one-on-one offline post team meeting.”
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“I think we need a multi-lateral verbalisation in the real-time mode” – you mean you want a meeting?
“boil the ocean”? Is that a new phrase that has sprouted up in English (because of a movie line, for example?), or is it perhaps a too literal translation from another language
by a non-native English speaker?
Nothing against non-native English speakers!
Just trying to understand the origins of the phrase, thanks.