#efforting

[justhiitit]

[araneapush]

I was sort of on board until that happened. But I’m really efforting to get over it.

Daily Journal Comic Day 252

[justhiitit]

A lovely evening to grind out a 5k or a ride on the beach.

[justhiitit]

[secretsky88]

Anything that you are "working upon", anything that you are "efforting about"- has your attention on the wrong end of the stick.

Abraham

[ryearick]

Bizz-Speak: A Plague Upon the Land

Business People Have a Special Language, and It's UGLY!

In my 34 years in industry, I heard plenty of overused and ugly bizz-speak terms, most of which I've tried to forget, but some still come to mind: "pre-planning" (planning to make plans??), "win-win," "partnering," "skill set" (what's wrong with simply "skills"?), and, of more recent vintage and perhaps the most grating of all, "efforting," meaning trying, as in, "We are efforting to secure him as a speaker." Here’s a sentence putting together some of the more objectionable terms: The committee should develop actionable and impactful deliverables to incentivize the workforce. Ugh and ugh.

[undercovernun]

EFFORT IS NOT A VERB!

I just heard a baseball announcer (on the Phillies-Yankees spring training game) use the word effort as a verb.  In context, he said The team has been efforting to get him all year.

Undercover Nun is praying for his immortal soul.