What cringey phrases are common in your workplace?

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Mine seems to favour

“Smash this”

Makes me internally shudder everytime I see I written. And it’s wrote a lot

"Opening the kimono"

I hate it.

Sector leading 🙈

Can you ‘reach out’ to so & so ......

No I can contact them, what the buggery fuck is reaching out? I thought that term was used as a compassionate reason for getting in touch with someone not to pass on information at work. Drives me batshit!

A previous boss used to use the phase "suck it and see" a lot, which I hated.

My current boss is quite old so sometimes uses words and phrases which now have different meanings. The worst is maybe "threesome" to describe our team of three (which happens to have two men and a woman).

Getting lost in the operational weeds = thinking about the actually crucially important details

Doing the impossible = no, otherwise by definition we wouldn't be doing it

Wicked problem = it's a bit tricky

Opening the kimono

Have never heard that but manages to be racist and misogynistic in 3 words!

(Win win, as you might say)

Reading all these has made me feel ill

what the buggery fuck is reaching out?

I hate this. So, so much. Everyone in my office is reaching out. Makes me want to scream.

we're on it
let's smash this
ok peeps

We do a lot of working in various "spaces"
Flash to bang
Leaning in
Forward leaning

"Cascade"
As in, "cascade this to your contacts".

I absolutely hate "work speak". One of those worst things about having a job is having to put up with such nonsense.

"talk to the slides"

yes this is a new one on me which I mentioned on another thread this morning.

Surely you are talking about the slides (or the information contained in them).

Also why is it a deck of slides, rather than a presentation?

We do a lot of working in various "spaces

Yes. Hate that too. I use "area" or "sector".

Damage limitations

Hot desking. Just fuck off with it

@Tilpop

"Going forward"

I hate that one

Me too! My ex boss and manager used to use it to wind me up! As if you'd go in any direction but forwards in business

Let's hop / jump on a call 🙄🤷🏻‍♀️

lets make this nauralistic
no need for the istic !!
let make it natural !!

materialistic no they are material !!

My apologies , Naturalistic .

Agggh reaching out

Can I lean in
Can I jump in. No you can't stop being a dickhead

Did we get the 'win' - the business, the f'n business it's NOT a win

"Normalicy" - not a word!
And allllllll the acronyms!

Upskilling
Ping an email
Backfill

Ending most sentances, both spoken and written with 'indeed' Raaaaa

'Enhance' this 'Enhance, that.
'Enhancing' this 'Enhancing' that.
'Enhanced' this 'Enhance' that.
Raaaaa

"We are where we are"
"There is a 'piece' around that"

I've never even heard of some of these before!

Opening the envelope?
Flying a kite here?
Opening the kimono!!??

Not many of these get used in my workplace but I guess we do say "moving forward" a lot and COB (call of business) quite often.