Industry Terms You Can't Stand

This is the mother lode, right here:

http://unsuck-it.com/

^ this is brilliant. I particularly like the ‘email the douchebag’ feature and I fully intend to do so whenever anyone in my team uses one of these terms.

Common response, but not official motto of house S2000

This is the mother load (see drop downs):

http://stockcats.com/

Going to keep this on hand for the next RFP and quarterly letter.

Should that calendar invite be pushed back? Or moved up?

The use of “ripping” or “on a tear” to describe an investment that is rapidly rising in price.

“Data Lake”

“V-shaped recovery”

Decent enough thread. Admittedly I’ve said 75% of the things on this list within the past 12 months.

I actually caught myself this morning saying “let’s take this offline”… it really is cringe worthy but yet an effective way to shut somebody up in an open forum.

Good advice, but a wee bit late for practical benefit.

At the end of the day, this whole thing comes down to an optics issue. No need to boil the ocean, just pivot to more actionable messaging.

I don’t know why we’re even wasting time talking about it. This project is “short money.” Let’s greenlight this son of a b!tch and be done.”

We’re pencils down until we see another turn. With amount of brain damage we put into the docs, I can’t believe they’re making us jump through our own a-holes to get this done.

Do you work at AB?

No, know some people there though. Which phrase made you think that?

Brain damage

The market is over valued.

The fed blah blah

It’s how we’ve always done it

No I didn’t run an experiment to test the hypothesis

dont fight the fed
risk on/ risk off
catch up trade
trim back
mean reversion
net long
lock in profits