From Dallas To Amarillo, Stop Using These Awful Office Terms

From the highrise offices of Dallas, Texas all the way to the deserts of West Texas, corpo-language is becoming something we're all having to deal with more often. It's hard sometimes to keep up with the changes to the chatter around the office and some of the new terms confuse us more than others. Here are the terms that we, as Texans, can't stand or understand the most.

What Corpo Speak Are We Texans Tired Of The Most?

There's something about the language that is spoken in the office. It's ridiculous. Hovering somewhere between actually having some utility and just being a sad attempt at keeping the worker bees motivated, office slang is a constantly evolving mess of buzzwords.

A recent study was done by Voicenation.com to see which office slang and jargon we're having the hardest time with. In Texas, the words that bother us the most are:

COP (Close of Play)
Game Changer
Deck
Apples to Apples
Idea Shower
Touch Base
Moving Forward
Bite The Bullet
Low Hanging Fruit
Circle Back

Why Do Texans Hate These Phrases So Much?

For some, because they've been used to death and we're frankly sick of them cluttering up our ears. For others, they don't make any obvious sense, and that infuriates us as well.

"COP", or close of play, is another way of saying "EOD", or end of day. I just had to look that one up and I hate everything about that phrase. End of day was bad enough. So was close of business (COB). Close of play is almost insulting. Enough is enough.

"Game changer" is so exhausted and worn out, a real game changer would be if we never heard this vomited from someone wearing a cheap tie ever again. "Idea shower" is the participation trophy generation version of having a brainstorm. It's disgusting to think that phrase has ever left the lips of a human being.

The whole list really is abysmal, and I stand with my fellow Texans when I say please stop using all of these. Fun fact, some studies say using "corpo jargon" can actually have the opposite effect of what's intended. Instead of getting your point across, you just wind up alienating your workforce by using ridiculous language. Productivity goes down because you have to be as entertaining as a bag of wet cement.

Stop with the office-speak.