Learnings.org

Used by someone stating that the subject matter at hand is not in their area of expertise; i.e. They have no clue. This is a buzzword-type way of someone admitting that they have absolutely no clue, and that they don't intend to find the answer. Instead, they either pass the buck to some other poor soul (usually to someone with a lower salary), or simply reply with the statement itself with no direction, help, or suggestions as to where the answer can be found.

As in...
"You'll have to ask Lindsay for the answer to your question - Financial Analysis is not in my swim-lane"

To glean useful information through unofficial/unapproved channels; unofficial/unendorsed.

As in...
"I don't mean to alarm you, but I caught wind of some upcoming layoffs"

The douche way to ask someone to send you an email

As in...
Hey man, remember that convo we had re: deals in bangkok last week? I can't seem to remember the deets so I was hoping you could inbox me the info. Thanks bro. See you tonight at Club Vandersexx.

A hostile meeting orchestrated by an incompetent management to interrogate project leads in front of high level executives. Assumes a theatrical-like spectacle atmosphere with lots of righteous indignation. The purpose is for incompetent management pass the blame on to their workers rather than accept responsibility for their own failings.

As in...
After the project went red and failed 3 consecutive corrective action plans to return to green, management called the Project Leads into a Come To Jesus meeting in front of the Executive Big Shots where they basically called all the programmers a bunch of lazy morons despite the fact that management had been pulling them off and retasking them to work on other things for the last 5 months.

Coming up with solutions to problems; problem solving.

As in...
Let's begin the solutioning for our second problem statement.

The same as "regardless"...but it's two letters longer so it must be better. Used only by those that pay no attention to the advice of their spellchecker.

As in...
Joe implemented the change to the database irregardless of the advice of the rest of the team.

Waste someone's time complaining about work or ranting about other topics that have nothing to do with the other person getting his/her job done.

As in...
Sorry to to randomize you by going on and on about my crazy boss.

A fancy version of the word "use" which is normally seen when a lower level person is communicating with an upper level person and is intended to make them look like they are more important than they really are

As in...
John would be a great addition to the development team. In his prior life he was the team lead at Schnocker Software so there is a lot of opportunity to leverage his product knowledge to help us make a sale. I'll ping him and see if he has any bandwidth for the sales initiative.

To continue a conversation at another time with a subset of a particular group, usually because an issue that was surfaced does not pertain to the entire group

As in...
Gary, this is an outstanding proposal. I have a couple of questions around the "college binge drinking" facebook widget and the information it will syndicate, but let's take it offline and figure it out after the meeting.

The phrase people use when they claim to be alarmingly busy at work dealing with trivial issues that are insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

As in...
"Sorry for the delay, I’ve been away from my desk and putting out fires." or "Let me put out this fire and I'll call you right back."