List Day: Work Phrases That Need a Makeover

• a "one-stop shop" for [features]: You never really needed to access all of these features at the same time, but now you can!


• these slides speak to this topic: Holy crap, a talking muffin slide!


• let's touch base tomorrow: This sounds slightly dirty.


• we need to pull the trigger on this: Save two syllables with "Let's stop dicking around."


• OBE (overtaken by events): This means that we waited long enough to solve a problem that it went away on its own and saved us some effort.


• we'll leverage our existing resources: We're actually going to use our resources, not exert pressure on them until they quit.


• do you have the bandwidth to support this?: If work is measured in throughput, then some peoples' latency is out of control.


• let's take that offline: No one else cares about that.