To Loathe the Phrase "Reaching Out"?

‘Cascade down’, as in, ‘Can you cascade this down to...’

No, but I can pass it on.

IMO a lot of people who use all this bollocky fashionable jargon can’t think in plain English, let alone write it.

I like it. It's friendly and warm in tone.

And if I see "impacted" in a document I go through changing it to "affected". Unless it's talking about impacted wisdom teeth!

Yes I don't like it either OP. I've had "thanks for reaching out" a couple of times in the last week. I didn't "reach out", I sent you a message/email.

"Thank you for your message" is fine. No need for managerspeakbolloxmungojumbospeak.

I hate "jump on a call" too. I don't "jump" on calls, I'll phone you, or you can call me.

hate it too OP. I imagine someone lying on the ground with an arm outstretched too.

Also hate:
Poop (an Americanism for those who find poo too crude)
My bad
Going forward
Rocked up
The gang (for your group of friends)

Gosh, I didn't think I was that fussy!

It's awful but "Head's up" is so much worse.

I hate this too! It makes the act of sending an email sound like some sort of humanitarian mission.

Wombat, I can only hope that in my final years I will dimly be aware that young people have stopped saying it and I’ll be able to die happily (as an old, or elderly, person).

I don’t know it can be stopped, lord knows I’ve tried (have actually mentioned to people that I find it a bit strong and would prefer if they’d contact me instead as it is making me that cranky). All we can hope is that it will peak and the downhill side will be arriving soon. And a glorious future that will be.

Yep it's really wankey.

One I find that's on the same wankeyness level is when someone at work someone says "can I have that by close of play today". Oh, so we are playing cricket (is that where it comes from?) today then?

It's all gobshite.

Love that flow chart Errol.

I have been following the progress of ‘reaching out’ for ten years, when it first infected the workplace. Hideous, emotive term. Its genesis has gone like this:

1. New senior (seeeeenior: that is for you, Rita’scornershop) colleague comes in from PWC, starts using it. Everyone sniggers.

1. The blasted phrase starts to take root amongst impressionable colleagues wishing to virtue-signal their ‘soft skills’ so that they can include it in their year end appraisal.

1. Tipping point reached, where ‘reaching out’ starts to invasively crowd out indigenous phrases like ‘I will contact you next weeks or ‘I spoke to X’. A bit like grey squirrels edging out squirrel Nutkin. Any other phrase suddenly considered ‘abrupt’ or lacking in #bekind kudos.

1. Dreaded phrase goes viral. Can it be stopped?

Bloody autocorrect - “too emotive” not “to”. And “sure I will reach out to you”. Tired and typing with one eye closed doesn’t help.

Reaching out has reached epic proportions. It’s been heavily adopted by younger people especially (nothing at all against millennials on my part, but to them it’s entirely normal to say it in place of contacting).

It makes me want to scream. It feels so overly emotive. “Can you get back to me with the estimated arrival time?” “Sure, I wo reach out to you tomorrow.” 😳 It always sounds 100 times to emotive for any situation (unless, perhaps, you work in a funeral parlour).

It sounds unprofessional to me and way too emotive.

I am also (& this may just be in Canada) loathing the term senior in place of old people or the elderly. It doesn’t help that it sounds really whiny in our accent. “As a seeeeeeenior I feel I deserve more attention”, “we want to help out seeeeeniors enjoy their golden years”. I’ve told my kids that in under a decade when I’m officially retirement age to refer to me as old or elderly and I’ll disown anyone who calls me a seeeeeenior. I may have to emigrate. If it hasn’t got to the UK yet, stamp on it fiercely if it tries to make inroads.

Circle back, jump on a call, and my least favourite: come to Jesus

I started to hear ‘reaching out’ a lot on American programs. Madam Secretary was one of the worst offenders!
I hate it with a passion 😩

By the way, another one I hate is curated. Where did that come from? Also so false

There's a lot of 'checking in' going on at the moment too I've noticed. (Teaching)
If you send a colleague or parent an email or phone them you are 'checking in'. Never happened before all this current business.
I bloody hate it. 'Just checking in blah blah blah' .

I hate 'reaching out' too. I always imagine someone drowning in quicksand with a pitiful, doomed expression on their face as everyone ignores their outstretched hand.

I also hate 'my bad', 'a trouser' (where's the other leg?) and 'a red/pink/nude lip' (again, missing lip).

Yep I hate it. My friend is always telling me to 'reach out" if I'm struggling. It really bugs me.

I also hate 'sourced'. Why is everyone sourcing things all of a sudden. I bought some flour in Morrisons this week. I didn't source it.

I hate that one, and I hate "going forward" instead of "in future".

Reaching out - looping back. It's nonsense. There is a lot of it about.

Yeuch! So false too.

Thanks for reaching out. Moving forward let’s try to get to a place where we can all feel comfortable

Cannot stand it! It's used so often where I work (PR) and it drives me crazy. It's worse than "going forward".