Annoying Office phases
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- peterorpete
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps…
What other phases does your boss say that make you want to punch him/her
- Raniator0
You spelt it wrong, twice ;)
- Oh thats phased out this topic's piont already :)peterorpete
- can you not pronounce your r's?mimeartist
- PSYKHO0
You need to think outside of the box! <- Fucking hate that one!
- the worst by farimnotadesigner
- i knew that was going to be at the top.myshoeshurt
- six0
its just a phase
- uncle_helv0
Hahahah that is one of the phrases I'm no stranger to...
You spelt it wrong, twice!
- PSYKHO0
Listen to our SEO guy, if he thinks it does not work with Google and our rankings then we won't go with it! I don't care if it looks good, Google matters more!
- Raniator0
My 'boss' says hundreds of things that piss me off, very few of them work related strangely... she's awesome and I hate her, at the same time.
- Stecchino0
That ship has sailed (aka The train has already left the station)
- uncle_helv0
How about 'Crude' being used as a descriptive word for assessing a layout, I f*ckin' hate that, as it's suggests something done without care, attention and it's not very helpful!
- Atkinson0
anything to do with 'the bar', raise the bar, push the bar, over the bar
- Hahaha yes gym speak has no place in the design studio!uncle_helv
- ..."fuck this! I'll be at the bar."epigraph
- Stecchino0
"I need that pronto"
- Raniator0
An old boss on the other hand had a few choice phrases. I used to hear him say:
"it is fit for purpose", and;
"before you show it to me, are YOU happy with with?"quite a lot...
- Stecchino0
...at the end of the day
- Dancer0
I hate the design term "lock-up" makes me wince
- ? that's a technical termBaskerviIle
- Still hate it thoughDancer
- What else should it be called?void
- "set" maybe
Sorry, I know it is a design term just grates on me that's allDancer - not sure what "lock-up" is.Mellimelvin
- I am cringing at that one as well.
When did it stop being called logo and tagline?hellrod
- Dancer0
Also adjectives for design pieces/work:
Sweet
Cute
Sexy
gorgeous- What positive adjectives should be used then? 'Nice'? 'Good'?detritus
- Great, nice, fantastic, brilliant, outstanding.Dancer
- In a normal environment where they are used far less I would be ok but I work in a studio full of women and I hear them all the time...Dancer
- the timeDancer
- Ah. Yes, that kind of makes sense. I was just smarting, because I like to use teh gorjos. I am a camp man, sighdetritus
- Dancer0
"can you get off QBN please"
- Spookytim0
I think any adjectives used regularly become irritating, but I really hate to hear people talk about things as being 'sexy'.
I have a client who I wont name who asks me to do J-Graphics, J-Style, J-Lettering... and the first two commissions I had really no fucking idea what he emant and just thought it was his own twaterminology. Recently though I've heard others refer to J-images, J-graphics, and J-art.
J-Fuck. Off.
- modern0
Current one is fine, an old one I used to hate was describing our work as adding the varnishing/polish to everything.
Of course 95% of what we produced had stupid reflective floors and glossy buttons all over the place, seemed like he meant it literally.