Buzzwords that make boardrooms spin and PowerPoints sing.
The corporate buzzword meaning you're supposed to anticipate problems before they happen, rather than frantically fixing them afterward like a normal person. It's the opposite of 'reactive,' and using it in meetings makes you sound strategic even when you're just guessing about the future. Every manager wants proactive employees, preferably ones with actual psychic abilities.
Someone who lives their life with the organizational skills of a military general and the foresight of a fortune teller. These Type-A overachievers can't help but schedule, strategize, and prepare for every possible scenario, including their own demise. If you've ever met someone with color-coded spreadsheets for their grocery shopping, you've met a plan-ative person.
To persistently annoy someone with constant small requests and tasks, like being pelted with tiny pebbles until you lose your mind. It's the verbal equivalent of death by a thousand cuts, except each cut is someone asking 'hey, can you do just one more thing?'
An old-school acronym meaning "pretty damn quick" that your grandfather probably used unironically. This vintage expression for speedy action has survived decades by being just ambiguous enough for polite company while everyone knows what the D really stands for. The linguistic equivalent of a wink and a nod.