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

Share of wallet - ie how much of the customer’s budget we can win.

It makes me cringe.

I like solutionise

Let's have a conversation.
The client journey.
Deep dive.
We've got this.

@Teetotallyimperfect CAB?

Learning curve

Fake it til you make it

It’s a marathon not a sprint
Eating the elephant
Smart working

@livefornaps probably, we're all one team one dream

actually that one, my DS6 told me and i thought "what the fuck are they doing to you in primary school?!"

30 years more to retire.

One that’s been around for years but has always pissed me off. At a meeting, someone not asking ‘who’s taking the minutes’ but instead ‘who’s scribing’.

But “scribe” is a verb, meaning to write things down?

@Passthecake30 what is "eating the elephant?" I am intrigued!

Let's drill down into this data.

@Bowchicawow fahckin 'ell, I've beem lumped in on the company's "dream team", too.

I don't think I'm ever gunna be able to retire, waaahhh! When I'm done, they'll just throw me on the scrapheap

I used to work for a biG uS bank and that place is full of it

Raising the kimono- sexist crap
Fireside chat - patronising crap
Blue sky thinking
Emm

Come on Mawbags what actually is it with this kimono stuff? You are the 3rd person who has mentioned it but I've never heard of it.
What have kimonos got to do with banking???

My boss says “it is what it is” a lot. And now I’ve found myself doing it.

There was a phase where all the big wigs used the word “exemplar” all the frigging time. It really annoyed me, luckily they seem to have stopped.

Lots of deep dives in my place. Make me chuckle because I’m immature

@BlusteryLake eating the elephant is about getting through a huge task

My biggest grrr lately is that no one talks about anything anymore, we have "discussions around" it instead.

I am a very bad "it is what it is" culprit

@WokeUpSmeltTheCoffee

You raise the kimono to entice interest in a deal. It’s showing something small to pique interest (well in a financial way)

It’s incredibly sleazy phrase and I hated it
Investment banks were very misogynistic though,
This was early 2000 I hope they no longer use it.

'Dojo points' really winds me up. I won't use it. I can't be that person...

@BikeRunSki

But “scribe” is a verb, meaning to write things down?

Yes’ I know it is. So why not just say write?

'Going forward' and 'box it off'. What a load of shit. Who teaches people to speak like this ?

Our motto is No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

oh, that and,

All messengers will be shot.

'Mitigate' bugger..off.

@mawbags we have fireside chat - not a bank - I didn't realise it was a US thing but makes sense now!