plooptionary

plooptionary - ploop’s weasel words and bullshit phrases fresh from the reeking bowels of consultants. (4 of 100)

Thanks for all your emails with word and phrase suggestions - I’m going to struggle keeping the plooptionary to just 100 entries!  Today’s phrase comes from a PR exec in the North of England called Judy.

* "On a different page": The context here is an uncomfortable appraisal meeting in a top Manchester PR agency.  Dan Taylor (MD) doesn’t feel his latest employee, account director Nathan Drinkwater, is ‘creative’ enough in his invoicing.  He’s been charging cost price for train tickets, hasn’t been travelling first class and isn’t exaggerating the time he spends on accounts - as a result Dan isn’t squeezing enough from his hapless clients.  Uncomfortable in directly telling Nathan to ramp up his invoices he employs choice phrase number 3, "Nathan, your ability to create a meaningful dialogue with the clients is pleasing and the company wants to thank you for that.  However, I think we’re on a different page vis-a-vis invoicing - I wonder if you could take some creativity for a ride in that area?"

The help I need is in mining different industries for their own over-used toss words/phrases … and I need the sentences and context in which they are used.  Comments or emails gladly received.

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