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10 annoying office phrases

Don’t miss this : Annoying office phrases. Few things that are common in Bangalore - as shared among my friends are below.

• Internalize: as in "once we go over the details, a summary helps in internalizing it" or as in "hands-on coding helps in internalize the theoretical knowledge". Common man’s equivalents: learn, understand.
• Leverage: as in "we can leverage Eclipse" or as in "let us leverage the clipart from Microsoft". Common man’s equivalents: download, reuse.
• Take it off-line: as in "this is going to be a long conversation - why don’t we take it off-line". Common man’s equivalents: Nobody else in a meeting cares about it - so get lost.
• Tool and Framework: as in "the tools and frameworks to internalize minutes of meeting can be leveraged ...". Common man’s equivalent: template. Note that "framework" generally refers to a 30 slide Powerpoint and "tool" can be a 2-3 page (sheet) Word document (Excel workbook).