Proactive

In office-lingo-world, hereby abbreviated to OLW (see how annoying it is), this refers to acting in advance to bypass a difficulty. People, just say you’re going to work ahead or act in advance, it’s really not any harder.

Synergy

OLW designates this as working togethor so that the combined effect is greater than the individual results. Again, “Hey let’s work togethor on this one!” works much better.

Web 2.0

OLW never thought of having the decent courtesy of realizing that those “web-illiterate” of us don’t have any idea what web 2.0 is. If you want to refer to web 2.0 at least give a brief pre-cursor as to what it entails i.e. blogging, user generated content, etc.

Google

The word google has been assigned the meaning “to search for”.

Bandwidth

In OLW this does not mean the designated amount of data one is able to send through a communications channel, rather it is referred to as the work load of an individual;

“Let’s assess the team’s bandwidth.”

Stop the insanity, let’s not make new meanings for words alright?

CYA and CLM

CYA is the abbreviation for “Cover Your Ass”, meaning taking acion to ensure you won’t get blamed for something. CLM is the abbreviation for “Career-Limiting Move”, obviously referring to an ill-advised career move. If these abbreviations are heard in conversation, a sock in the face is in order.