Comment by echelon
6 days ago
We used to do this for every earnings call.
We printed up bingo cards filled with buzzwords, products, trends, things we thought the analysis might say, etc. We charged $15 per card, all of which was pooled and given to the charity of the winner's choice. When the CEO caught on, he started matching the donations.
There was a reverse version of this played too. We voted in Slack for some weird word or phrase that the CEO or CFO had to say during the earnings calls. They were super awkward and totally unrelated, and the goal was they had to weasel the phrase in somehow. It was pretty funny.
(For someone else in the know, without giving away the company, do you remember any of the wacky phrases?)
I currently work at the company. Wacky words that I can find in Slack include
- updog
- stegosaurus
- brat
- flabbergasted
- superbowl
- crouton
I remember stegosaurus! Good times.
lol idk why crouton has me flabbergastedly in stitches.
> the goal was they had to weasel the phrase in somehow
Reminds me of the old short story, I think it was called "The Club"?
> (For someone else in the know, without giving away the company, do you remember any of the wacky phrases?)
The phrases from that company (late 90s) are now long-gone from my mind, mere flotsam on the subsequent sea of bullshit.
But later on I worked a lot with soldiers from the British Army and discovered to my delight that they also had some excellent phrases. Off the top of my head
Wolf closest to the sledge / Crocodile closest to the canoe = highest priority problem
Left and right of arc = the extreme ends of a spectrum of possible choices
Don't fight the white = in a test, answer the question rather than complain about it (in staff college exams, the question was on white paper, answer was a different coloured paper, apparently)
Interview without coffee = a dressing down from a senior officer
etc etc.