In any way shape or form

[AlwaysHopeful]

What's wrong with the phrease "at all"? Why fill the air with unnecessary words? I'm sitting at my desk in an open office playing bullshit bingo with all the overheard conversations of my colleagues.

What phrases drive you nuts?

Oh, god, I can't stand 'more unique' or 'really unique'. Likewise people how as 'how pregnant is she?' - erm, she either is, or she's not. It is a binary state. If you mean how many months say so!

I am proof reading my own work at the moment and crossing out a zillion empty-word phrases like 'It could be argued that ...'.

And I know I over-use 'does that make sense' too.

I have a habit of ending requests to the dcs with ......'or AIBU?'

Asinine I often have to supress the urge to tell someone YABU

"Let's box and cox"

No let's think it through and do it properly!

Use of the awful 'off of' as in, 'here's Seaweed off of Mumsnet' has my blood boiling. What's wrong with 'from' it's one word not two and less letters!!

I don't work in an office anymore so whenever people start with all that 'granularity' business, I just stare at them and say, calmly, 'I have no idea what you mean.'

And on a similar theme, I was on a bus the other day sitting in front of a couple of kids on their phones and every sentence was punctuated with at least one, 'do you know what I mean - or 'Jarmean?' - often before anything at all had been said.

'So, I was like, jarmean?' No! No how can anyone possibly know what jarmean if you haven't told us what it was you were meaning in the first place!? Didn't seem to bother them though. Teenage telepathy, innit.

Argh. [shuffles off on Zimmer]

"Box and cox" is my favourite so far... I wonder how often I will need to use it before it catches on.

Hit the ground running. Usually at interviews where they're too tight to pay dual salaries for a week or so to enable a proper handover.

Will someone please tell me what 'being granular' mean? I must know so that I can object to it properly.

wildfig you made me laugh so hard I'm crying!

So true, so awful..... I hope my DCs don't start with all that I'm going faint at the thought.

Also shamed by spelling mistake in the opening post. Not much merit it complaining about how people speak when I can't spell

Jenny - I think 'going granular' is about getting into things in more detail.

Here is my Friday afternoon present to all those who love hate office jargon. I can't wait to go in on Monday and shout "Aces to Places!!!"