List I

The aisle marked 'Inspiration' in the supermarket of my mind was bare this week so instead I have compiled a list. This is a list of words that I have been exposed to in the US world of business. I will admit to having used some of them. Yes, I am going to hell:

1) Super [adverb/adjective] - used to mean 'very' as in 'I'm super pumped...'

2) Pumped [adjective] - used to mean excited as in 'We are super (see 1) pumped about this deal'

3) In sync [noun] - to be in agreement with a younger Justin Timberlake

4) Action [verb] - to do......

5) Leverage [verb] - to help...... (note how the last two are one syllable longer than their more commonly found synonyms)

6) Associate [noun] - essentially means person e.g. 'Recruiting Associate' = 'Recruiting Person' or 'Recruiter'

7) Bucket [noun] - meaning group or collection (I like to visualise a 'bucket of candidates' when it is mentioned in meetings)

8) Reach out [verb] - to contact, but with an unintended (I assume) hint of desperation

9) Todd [noun] - a silly name often held by a man

10) OOO [acronym] - this quite sensibly means 'Out Of Office' but before I knew this I thought my colleagues were demonstrating surprise

Finally (there are more but these immediately spring to mind) we come to 11) Explode. I'm not entirely sure what this means but I have seen it used as follows:

' Thank you for your interest but my offer with Goldman recently exploded'.

I have not heard from Todd since.