My current bugbear is "guesswork," although in my case this is in the context of the marketing bumf that my vendors and manufacturers slather their products in.

Apparently in the corporate world, the only purpose of guesswork is to "take it out of" things. Take the guesswork out of this, take the guesswork out of that. It seems at this point you are guaranteed that any time "guesswork" appears in a sentence it's going to be preceeded or followed by it being taken out of something, as surely as U always follows Q.

Once you notice the pattern (it doesn't take you long if you're sitting in my seat) the lack of originality becomes deeply irritating.

Probably ' servant leadership'.

Drill down

Strategy.

No, your half-baked, half-plan you stole from an intern, is not only not good, the last guy tried it and we are still trying to fix that mess.

I’m not sure if it really counts as a buzzword though.

"Good catch!"

Usually said when you bring up something that needs fixing, and said as a way to puff you up and not actually follow up on the problem.

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"pAiN pOiNtS"

these are not knots in muscles they are severe institutional shortcomings and failings that are draining us all, making us want to jump ship, hazardous, and in some cases even making the company lose profit but you fuckheads just want to write down pAiN pOiNtS and jerk yourselves and the shareholders off instead of actually doing ANYTHING MEANINGFUL

I don't have a problem with the words - I have a problem with them getting appropriated and destroyed by corporates.

Touch base

Leadership at the company I work for started saying "let's double click that" to mean let's go into more detail on that topic. Hate it.

Also "let's take this offline" which just means let's have a different meeting about it, it'll still be online because we're all remote.

Referring to people, staff as resources. Nice and dehumanizing.

"going forward."

Yeah, "from now on" worked fine there Phill.

We are working on a new strategy