What word is used most at your work?

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  1. Cthippo

    Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

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    Call me when your customers start insisting they're god and you must obey (literally) or else attack you. I've had both happen to me.
     
  2. woodshop

    woodshop UnSeenly

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    "I can't believe this thing will ever fly"
     
  3. C0nKer

    C0nKer What's a Dremel?

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    Offset

    It's a company making automated inspection machine for PCBs anyway, kinda like no surprise there.
     
  4. kenco_uk

    kenco_uk I unsuccessfully then tried again

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    Fixed.
     
  5. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    Not so much words as phrases.

    "She is such a liar"
    "They're ****ing stupid"
    "Not this idiot again"

    General complaints about the people that pay us to deal with their lack of IT knowledge, essentially :D
     
  6. Trefarm

    Trefarm No matter what... It's all good

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    Fu*king or C*nt... usually used in conjuction, to describe the ability of sub-contractors, quality of materials, leadership of management, weather, houses we build, people who buy said houses e.t.c...

    It does take some of the fun out of cursing though when everyone (Except one Jehovah's Witness) uses four letter words to start and finish all conversations.
     
  7. murtoz

    murtoz Busy procrastinating

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    Ah, half my customers are german, and whilst there is nothing wrong with that they expect every featue of a product to work flawlessly, even if they don't use that particular feature!
     
  8. PhenomRed

    PhenomRed What's a Dremel?

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    At my work we don't have a 5 o'clock, it's been renamed "Beer o'clock"

    F*ck is the most used word, all the sales guys and the warehouse guys use it all day, the boss uses it, hell even the accounting lady uses it
     
  9. kenco_uk

    kenco_uk I unsuccessfully then tried again

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    Classy.
     
  10. PhenomRed

    PhenomRed What's a Dremel?

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    It's just easier than forming complete sentences. It's such a versatile word. Don't make me go Monty Python
     
  11. Smegwarrior

    Smegwarrior Fighting the war on smeg

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    When I buy a product I expect every feature to work flawlessly, why would anyone accept any less than a fully working product? :rolleyes:

    The product has it's features listed, there is a price tag on said product, if you expect me to pay the amount printed on the price tag on said product, even if discounts are involved, if that product fails to perform or fails to have all features working flawlessly you can bet your @$$ that you will be seeing me in the store again while I obtain either a fully working product or a full refund of the amount I have paid. ;)
     
  12. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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  13. yakyb

    yakyb i hate the person above me

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    usually when something goes wrong the words I Blame XXX come out usally the guy who isnt in the room

    but only as a joke.

    another term is
    good question well presented
     
  14. fev

    fev Industry Fallout

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    ranked from 2 days worth of monitoring

    1. fev
    2. boss-man
    3. iphone bollocks
    4. ask bickers
    5. "that's something customer services has to deal with"
     
  15. knuck

    knuck Hate your face

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    it's always a great relief to drop a huge 'tabarnak' when you're mad, trust me :D
     
  16. lcdguy

    lcdguy Minimodder

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    well where it's not normally a single word but rather a string of words. that tend to get worse and worse the closer to friday it gets. but usualy one of the staple expletives or something along the lines of. People Suck, People will always Suck and they will Never stop sucking. or Wow, grad A moron here :) Needless to say i work in IT.
     
  17. Burnout21

    Burnout21 Is the daddy!

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    i knew i needed to destress when a new employee thought i had tourettes, which then caused me to go even more over board resulting in a string of incoherent shouting which would have mirrored even the worst case of tourettes.

    stress, who needs it?
     
  18. Bungle

    Bungle Rainbow Warrior

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    "Earned Value" is the Buzz word at work. Used to highlight the need for greater efficiency at what we do. Project manager uses it constantly. The same person who insists on pointless half hour meetings every F'ing day to update the idiot on issues he's been prompted on already. (sorry should have gone in the rants section).

    /Bungle counts to 10
     
  19. dragon2309

    dragon2309 techie

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    Mine is probably more of a few phrases rather than words...

    "No, scart to VGA doesnt exist, you didn't see it in PC World"

    or

    "HDMI to VGA is impossible without thousands of pounds of digital to analogue converters, again, you didn't see it in PC World *muppet*"

    or perhaps the constant convincing of customers that a 12v 100mA AC adaptor wont run their laptop, which is always fun because "their friend who knows all about this sort of stuff told them it would be fine"

    I tell ya, if i ever meet any of these friends and colleagues who convice people that this **** exists im gonna pummel their faces in with a fricking shovel
     
  20. Guest-2867

    Guest-2867 Guest

    More like a £150 worth but heyho

    We get these types in work all the time, asking for leads to connect their DV (firewire) camcorders to USB ports etc annoys the hell out of me.
     

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