What phrases do you use in work that you'd never use at home?

[CitizenClem]

I think there have been a few threads here about awful business slang (reaching out, blue sky thinking, etc), but I found myself saying something that I'd never ever say at home.

I was talking in a meeting where nothing was really agreed, and it was all a bit "blah blah", and I described it as a "rich discussion".

I notice that I talk about "leveraging" finance, asking about the "envelope" of the financing, and even talking about "bilateral" meetings.

While this language is not quite clichéd, they're well understood terms at work, but I'd never (fingers crossed) use them at home or in the pub.

Do you use similar phrases that you'd admit to using at work, but never outside?

Work: well this is a bit of a challenge
Home: what the fuck have you done?

I work in a pub.

“Always a pleasure!” Has become over the years a sort of catchphrase of mine whenever I’m thanked. I can inwardly mutter “...never a chore.”

Yesterday I thanked dd for being so patient while I did something boring. She said, “always a pleasure!”

That is the end of the exam. Put your pens down.

Work: 'I feel enthusiastic about the learning potential of asynchronous distanced teaching.'
Home: 'The fuckers want me to go in and I'm sick of it.'

I have been known to tell toddler DD something is a 'learning opportunity for us both' when what I mean is, she's driving me up the wall. I think she's cracked that particular code.

When I got together with my husband I said I look forward to our joint enterprise, I was doing an accountancy degree at the time. I tend to be a lot more formal at work,
If you refer to my earlier email rather than I've already told you!

I'm a PhD student and DH regularly takes the piss out of my teaching/meeting with my supervisor chat if he overhears me on Zoom. Apparently I sound like a bit of a tosser, which I well believe

Work: “I want to see a full risk assessment, and you must have safety harnesses and a permit to work to do that.”

Home, “meh, just stand on a chair.”

My DW informed me last night that the potatoes cooking on the hob for dinner were "not yet finalised."

Not yet finalized is the type of thing I could say at work and see it creeping into my home life!

One other thing, deliverables. If I ever say that at home, that will be the end of things

“I’m just going to put this little swab up your bottom”

“We need to allocate funding at the next budget review for this issue.” is something II say a lot.

I did actually tell DH that we needed to allocate funding for ice cream purchases after several trips to the park over the summer

"Yes yes"

Perfectly normal at work, undeniably shitty sounding in real life