Tuesday 20 January 2009

new words (and why you should start using them!)

a new year needs new vocabulary

I propose we compile a record of the weird, funny, useful words and phrases we encounter as we enter the last year of the decade

if WE start using them, maybe they'll enter wider usage

then, when the whole sixth form/school/town/(world?!) start using them, we can think - 'I helped start that off!'

take 'muppet shuffle'; this great-sounding phrase is in use NOW as slang in offices and companies across the country

what do YOU think it means? (clue: it's a change a company makes when things aren't going well)

7 comments:

  1. muppet shuffle means to move all the 'silly' or maybe not so bright people around so that one section of a business isn't stuck with them all. or maybe even when people are made redundant because they are no longer useful to the company. megan.

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  2. Muppet Shuffle is the moving of students/workers around to different places where they may be more efficent or easier to handle.
    Georgie!

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  3. a muppet shuffle is the movement of difficult and/or under-performing workers to other departments

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  4. The shifting of under-performing or troublesome employees to other unsuspecting departments.

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  5. The shifting of under-performing or troublesome employees to other unsuspecting departments...thank you google!
    Jason Vaitilingon

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  6. a muppet shuffle is the movement of difficult and/or under achieving emplyees or students to other departments or schools

    just a lil edited copying

    Ollie

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