Fire Frog's
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B ullshit Buzzword Bingo. |
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Do other employees seem to be paying more attention lately to what is being said at corporate meetings? Are announcements from the top players getting more careful scrutiny than they used to? Perhaps upper management has hired more dynamic speakers and your workmates are tunning in to the Righteousness, Truth and Justice of the Corporate Way! Or they could just be playing the classic game of bullshit buzzword bingo! Come on, be a team-player, be pro-active and throw your hat into the ring!How to Play The game is played like ordinary bingo except that instead of numbers the squares have random buzzwords inside i.e. paradigm; bottom line; optimisation; out of the box; etc. 1) Before any big management speech (for instance the annual 'State of the Nation' update) print up bullshit buzzword bingo cards using the links below. Or make up your own using buzzwords from last years sermon! 2) Cross out each word or phrase as it is used in the speech. 3) Complete a strait line of crossed out words up, down or diagonally to win. 4) Upon winning stand up and yell BULLSHIT as loud as you can, then walk out of the meeting. 5) If you have a less accommodating work environment, pre arrange a secret signal - the spilling of a coffee cup, throwing down of a pen, an explosive sneeze etc. |
Links
Business Buzzword Bingo! - http://www-ucs.usc.edu/~karl/Bingo/ Card generator
Better Workplace Now - http://www.betterworkplacenow.com/bingo/ Card generator
The Palaces Bingo site - http://www.thepalaces.com/bingo_jokes_facts.asp
Crazy Jokes - http://www.crazy-jokes.com/Tricks/crazy-bingo.shtml
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Here are some testimonials from satisfied Bullshit Buzzword Bingo players: "I had only been in my last meeting for five minutes when I won and strode confidently out the door, leaving my co-workers to another half hour of bum numbing info-speak!" "My attention span at meetings has improved dramatically." "What a gas! Meetings will never be the same for me after my first win." "The atmosphere was tense in the last process meeting as 14 of us waited for the fifth box." "The speaker was stunned as eight of us screamed "BULLSHIT!" for the third time in two hours." |
Example Card
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Highly motivated |
Task force |
Management team |
System overhaul |
Multi tasking |
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Intensive research |
Follow the standard |
Best practices |
Knowledge-base |
On the same page |
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Game-plan |
Knock-on effect |
Fast-track |
Round table discussion |
Spearhead |
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Re-engineering |
Total Quality Management |
At the end of the day |
Set the standard |
Big picture |
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Pro-active |
Marketing issues |
Long term planning |
Operating infrastructure |
Benchmark |
I felt like sleeping in today. But I came to work instead.
We bingo players sit together
Face each other and wonder whether
Thee or me, which one will win
Me I hope will wear the grin.