The "Going Forward" Disease

jetsonx · 08-04-2010 09:43AM #1

There is a terrible post-Celtic tiger disease going about at the moment that most Irish business + customer service people seemed to have picked up during the boom years.

That phrase is "going forward" - was not widely used in Ireland until about 2004 but now part of the vernacular.

Now that dreaded phrase is dropped into to even the most mundane business interactions.

Do users of this phrase just realize how bad it actually sounds to the listener?

Do you they think if they drop the phrase enough times into the conversation that it makes them sound sophisticated, go-getting and ultra-urbane professionals, when in reality it just makes them sound fake.

Opinions.

genericguy · 08-04-2010 09:44AM

jetsonx wrote: »

Do users of this phrase just realize how bad it actually sounds to the listener?

no, because they're just blue-sky thinkers.

abouttobebanned · 08-04-2010 09:44AM

It's just a couple of words tbh.

IvyTheTerrible · 08-04-2010 09:48AM

I always wonder what other way could they go?

Trashbat · 08-04-2010 09:50AM

jetsonx wrote: »

That phrase is "going forward" - was not widely used in Ireland until about 2004 but now part of the vernacular.

Do you have any sources to back up this assertion?

I used it all the time in 2001. I was a visionary

Danbo! · 08-04-2010 09:50AM

Ugh, cant stand that management/businessy speak, have to listen to this **** in work. And have you ever seen the apprentice? **** sake. Everyone saying the same **** to impress the panel, and incredibly enough, it seems they are impressed

Bill: Why should I hire you?
Candidate: Ill pay for myself, ill hit the ground running, etc etc...
Bill:*Faints in amazement*

MagicMarker · 08-04-2010 09:51AM

jetsonx wrote: »

There is a terrible post-Celtic tiger disease going about at the moment that most Irish business + customer service people seemed to have picked up during the boom years.

That phrase is "going forward" - was not widely used in Ireland until about 2004 but now part of the vernacular.

Now that dreaded phrase is dropped into to even the most mundane business interactions.

Do users of this phrase just realize how bad it actually sounds to the listener?

Do you they think if they drop the phrase enough times into the conversation that it makes them sound sophisticated, go-getting and ultra-urbane professionals, when in reality it just makes them sound fake.

Opinions.

Can't talk right now, I'll touch base with you later on this.

Keano · 08-04-2010 09:52AM

You can add "green shoots" to that list :rolleyes:

genericguy · 08-04-2010 09:52AM

MagicMarker wrote: »

Can't talk right now, I'll touch base with you later on this.

just make sure we get this wrapped up by the close of play.

corkcomp · 08-04-2010 09:53AM

MagicMarker wrote: »

Can't talk right now, I'll touch base with you later on this.

going forward can you please try not to postpone important debates:p

NothingMan · 08-04-2010 09:55AM

We need to promote synergy, and be more goal oriented and team focused to help drive forward with next pahase of boards.ie paradigm shift.

For Forks Sake · 08-04-2010 10:04AM

NothingMan wrote: »

We need to promote synergy, and be more goal oriented and team focused to help drive forward with next pahase of boards.ie paradigm shift.

Going forward, that paradigm shift will place boards.ie at the centre of the proposed knowledge economy

TheZohanS · 08-04-2010 10:08AM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

It's just a couple of words tbh.

Exactly, it is what it is.

Cuddlesworth · 08-04-2010 10:10AM

I like pie.

ocokev · 08-04-2010 10:11AM

"Going Forward" is a political "At the end of the day".

Wazdakka · 08-04-2010 10:12AM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Going forward, that paradigm shift will place boards.ie at the centre of the proposed knowledge economy

HA!...

08-04-2010 10:20AM

I hear this in every single meeting in work.. Don't mind it though, makes me kinda laugh every time I hear it.

tipperaryboy · 08-04-2010 10:22AM

It's just a set of words used to make you seem clever.

bonerm · 08-04-2010 10:24AM

It's just another opportunity to bullshít bingo except at national level.

antodeco · 08-04-2010 10:27AM

LOUD NOISES

abouttobebanned · 08-04-2010 10:27AM

Going forward, maybe they could just say "from now on" .

Poly · 08-04-2010 10:33AM

Well, we are where we are, in a small open based economy. Going forward, in the context of completely f&cking up the country, blame it on those pesky Lehmen bros.

jetsonx · 08-04-2010 10:34AM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Going forward, maybe they could just say "from now on" .

but only plebs and little people use this "from now on".

I could never have any respect for anybody who used a natural and much more down-to-earth phrase like "from now on"

For Forks Sake · 08-04-2010 10:36AM

Poly wrote: »

Well, we are where we are, in a small open based economy. Going forward, in the context of completely f&cking up the country, blame it on those pesky Lehmen bros.

Quiet Brian

consultech · 08-04-2010 10:38AM

OP I'll revert back to you with an opinion on this once I get it.

(The above sentence makes absolutely zero sense; I have no intention of changing back into the OP, whom I apparently was at one stage or another)

SeaFields · 08-04-2010 10:42AM

Wasn't it Biffo who started using this phrase?

"we need to put ourselves in the best possible position going forward"

And the press jump on it like a bandwagon because most of them cant think for themselves.

Anyway....go fcuk yourself Biffo. :mad:

SEPT 23 1989 · 08-04-2010 10:43AM

ring fence and copperfasten

ScumLord · 08-04-2010 10:46AM

It always makes me think of Simpsons.

My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but
tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward,
and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.