AIBU to not work on any projects which include the term "reach out"?

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It makes me gag.
No one reached out, there was a discussion, or we approached them or we asked them a questions.

I work in science. I don't reach out to people, I work with them.

It's mainly one colleague who says it.

Just needed to get that off my chest!

The "myself" trend is the WORST! I think people think it sounds smarter or more formal but in actuality it makes my ears bleed.

Yes!!!! I feel the need to shriek "that's an incorrect use of the reflexive" every time. But don't because I'd look like an arse.

I just reached out to my DH via FB Messenger with your pic, Millie.

I hate this phrase too!

Also 'super excited, 'super busy', etc

One of my clients will often ask if I have the "bandwidth" to take on a project. It makes me feel like some sort of transistor radio. What's wrong with just saying "Do you have the time to do this?"? Infuriating!

Also "circle back" for "reply".

Doggy I'm with you "socialise" drives me nuts.

No, you are not going to socialise this paper. You are going to communicate. No one is taking it for drinks after work...

If they reach out, you can 'push back'.

I don't like 'lean in' either. No reaching out, no leaning in, thanks, just standing still will be fine, going forwards, on our journey.

I've got somewhat inured to this sort of thing after 30 years working for a US-based company (though in the last couple of years acquired by a French organisation which has brought some new terminology to the mix).

I don't mind too much when colleagues in the US 'touch base' etc but it irks me when some of the UK staff do it. I try to redress the balance by using British idioms.

I can't decide if push back is retaliate, respond, rebuff - sometimes the sentence isn't clear so I'm not sure if the push back is hostile!

I quite like super excited, super happy etc. Someone the other day told me they were less than super happy about something, which I thought was a great turn of phrase.

Unless you are an outreach worker there is really no need.

In my old job we aquired a WannabeYank sales twat who was fond of 'reaching out' to people. Within a week his nickname throughout the UK operation was Reach Around.

I left before I ever found out if he was aware of his new name

"Myself" is ages old! One of my ex-boyfriends used to say it. At the time, I thought it made him sound like a pretentious, uneducated prat, but it seems to have become popular with other pretentious, uneducated prats.

Have you ever played buzzword bingo in a meeting? Such fun!
Some of the cringiest phrases used at my place right now are -
Let's take this offline (talk about it outside the meeting)
Learnings (things we've learnt)
Take it up a level (think about it more strategically)
Going into solution mode (thinking of a solution rather than what the problem is)
Part of the same ecosystem (I'm not 100% sure what this actually means - something to do with systems that work together. IT use this a lot!)

I can't bear...whatever...mode anyway.

'Can you cascade this down...'.
GRRRR MAD ANGER DAGGERS! - as they used to say in the Beano.

My Vietnamese colleague uses it to in Vietnam. America travels along way!

Someone else though it was much much worse and used to use language that absolutely nobody could understand. She was fresh out of University. I told her to use plain English.

My ex-manager was full of this crap. I was clearly not in her swimlane.

Oh god.

Here, my colleagues like to "cross pollinate ideas" by "reaching out" to "share best practice" across traditionally "silo-ed" departments, whilst "fleshing out" ideas to ensure they "have legs", by having "honest conversations" about who has "bandwidth capacity" to take responsibility for this "horizonal scanning" project. If anyone wants to share their "learns", we welcome "360 traffic light feedback" but anything too critical needs to be taken up "offline" or "parked" for a "development discussion" with a manager.

My ears bleed, my eyes are burning and I want to scream at them.

Though, the bullshit bingo cards i made last year have greatly increased my tolerance :)

Can I add 360 degree thinking? eg thinking about how your ideas could translate to other parts of the organisation?

It's all management shorthand when they've been on courses or read management books. Anyone remember "who moved my cheese?" - basically a book for management planning big changes which would upset their employees. I'm surprised cheese-moving isn't in there somewhere.

Watch for this thread in the DM.

We have to get 360 degree feedback for our annual appraisals. Basically you have to find 3 unwilling victims kind colleagues and get them to fill in a questionnaire about your performance. It even suggests going to clients with the form. They can fuck off if they think our clients have time to be bothered with that nonsense. If I wasn't performing, you can bet your arse they would be on the phone to my manager without waiting for an annual review

Fucking blue sky thinking.

I used to work for an American company and all of these are sounding very familiar.

The worst was when someone in my team got made redundant and the company sent round an e-mail saying the person had been "involuntarily separated from the organisation"!!!!

YABU it's essential that we all reach out so that we can be more agile. Connectivity is critical don't you know.

Am going to giggle every time low hanging fruit is mentioned "going forwards"