(1). Short-hand for a trading desk at a financial firm.
Desk
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Parking Lot
(1). At conferences you are invited to write out questions/ideas/concerns on a sticky note and place it on a board called the parking lot. You are told someone (from the company running the conference) will go through them and group them into like categories to avoid repetition and then your topics will be addressed.
Translation: Slick guise to placate participants, weed out undesirable topics and zero in on what corporate wants to address.
Props to Cynthia E. for the submission.
(2). A polite euphemism used in meetings to scuttle the train wreck of an idea that everyone sees except the one who just raised it.
“That’s a good point, Bill. Let’s put that in the parking lot and discuss it after the meeting offline.” (Here “offline” means never.)
Props to Tommy P. for the submission.
Mental Detective Work
(1). Something your boss doesn’t want to have to do … ever. So, keep it simple, stupid.
“Look, Jim … sounds like a great idea, but you really need to flesh out these requirements a bit more before we can propose this as a new project. We can’t have our development team doing a lot of mental detective work to try to figure out what you’re driving at.”