What phrase do you hear ALL THE TIME during your working day, that makes you want to scream?!

[Ilovemychocolate]

So I’m a childminder.
Whilst out with the kids (presently four 2 year olds) I hear “you’ve got your hands full” multiple times a day!
Over and over again, and it’s SO hard to react with a smile sometimes! (But I do obviously)
When I worked in shops it was “printed it this morning!” if someone handed me a fresh note.
So what do you hear constantly whilst working, that makes you scream inside?!

“Have you got a minute to hop on a call?”

No - I am busy. Also I’m too old to hop 😂

Years ago I used to sell prams. The men would always 'take it for test drive' and make jokes about brake tests and MOTs. Now I work in a school. I have to say 'unroll your skirt' eleventy billion times a day.

Employees whining that asking them to do their job is bad for their mental health

" six seven"

Any email involving the word ‘gentle’.

I swear in my head and lose all respect for the sender.

When I worked in the nhs on the wards and I’d go round asking patients for their meal choices and hear “steak and chips pls” followed by a chuckle!!

‘I hate you’ and ‘I can’t lie back’ - both incredibly irritating!

“Does this mean it’s free?” Whenever an item doesn’t have a barcode/working barcode.

Always said by someone who thinks they’re the first person ever.

In my current team they say “sighted on” to mean “informed about” and it drives me bananas.

It’s never a minute either 🤣

Do you have any hearing difficulties?

What?

🤨

Due to being in the middle of a merger, "Lifting and shifting" is currently being said 20 times a day by those whose trouser hems have never met the tops of their loafers.

I want to buy them some warm socks and then kill them.

'You missed a bit' ....im a Cleaning manager, drives me mad lol

“Have you got a minute”, and “we’re shortstaffed”

I bet it's always a man who says it too. 🙄

See also 'only if it's free' when a checkout operator asks someone if they want cashback. (Also, always a man! They do think they're sooooooo funny!) 😴

It doesn’t annoy me, but I hear ‘you’re on mute’ several times a day.

“Thanks for reaching out”

I didn’t. Reaching for you would imply I want to instigate physical contact. Take it from this menopausal guardian of strict boundaries I do not.

nor will I be “circling back” to continue this pointless exchange.

I hate, HATE, HATE...

'Teamwork Makes The Dream Work!'

ARGH!!!!!! (Mostly because at least half of 'the team' don't pull their weight!'

OMG the 'reaching out' shite has hit MN in a big way this last year or so.

"I reached out to a friend recently"

"Should I reach out to my sister?"

"I'm reaching out to Mumsnetters"

Grrrrrr!! 😡🤣

I don’t have capacity

or

they don’t have capacity

'Lappy'-Laptop

'Giving you your time back' - when a meeting finishes early

And there is one woman who constantly, CONSTANTLY, says '100%' accompanied by nodding profusely to anything her seniors say.

"There's no I in team"

No, but there's two in idiot 🙄

Or 'bandwidth'

I always want to tell them to change their network provider.

Oh yes. What's wrong with "contacting"?

'Development opportunity.'

A phrase only used when the work is so shit you don't want to do it yourself and you're dumping it on someone (usually more junior) to you.

Conversely, I LOVE 'as soon as resources allow'.

It's usually code for 'you've cut our budget, frozen recruitment, and I don't have the staff to do crucial business let alone your pointless request you absolute twat.' At least it is when I say it.