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?!

'the needs of the service' 😡

I think this is totally reasonable. The patient was honest and said they didn't need to be seen today, but thinks 10 days is too long to wait.

My role involves a lot of events and at every one, every new person you meet asks the same 3 questions 'what do you do?' 'Have you travelled far to get here' and 'have you been together this event before' so you just answer those 3 questions over and over again...

You didn't offer today for a routine appointment though!

Yeah but there's a you in cunt,stuns and silences I find 😆

Pivot - latest buzz word. Yuk.

I’m allergic to penicillin.
Me: What happens when you take it?
Nothing, my mum just told me never to take it.

The context here is that it isn’t these people’s fault - too many people were wrongly told they were allergic to penicillin in the 1970’s, but it is annoying to hear it, knowing that for most of them it would be a safe and effective treatment.

Reach out
Lean in
The art of the possible
Protein rich
Granularity
Deep dive
Left and right of arc
Stand by

"Speak to" + something in meetings. As in "Jerome, can you speak to this?"
No, I bloody can't. But I can speak about it 😀

Ha! I get this one too. All they see is that tiny interaction I have with them, and not the rest of my widely varied and pretty interesting job. Once I asked the person saying this what they’d done for a job and they replied with “something even more boring than this!” 😂

I work in safeguarding. This means that I am regularly told that things which are nothing whatsoever to do with safeguarding are "a safeguarding issue" by people who do not understand what the word safeguarding actually means. Seriously considering getting little cards printed with the definition to save myself time.

I use this all the time when the same person constantly tries to offload extra work on to me. It is an easy way to close the request down. This person has tasks they don't like and always try to delegate them to me!

I had a manager who always said "segoo" for segue. They'd clearly seen it written down (probably on someone else's PowerPoint slides) and not connected it to the pronunciation. And they said it a lot.

Deep Dive

Got to be care home staff, right? I've been there!!!

A few of my colleagues have started prefacing their request with hvad hedder det... (What's it called) And it's driving me nuts.

’can you just..’ , and ‘are you busy’ when I’m CLEARLY fucking busy .

“But you MUST have appointments, it’s an emergency” said in a childish bitter tone, by one of the dozens of phone calls I get every day from people who want chiropody services but refuse to listen to my voicemail which tells them that I am fully booked and cannot take on anyone else even if it is an emergency.
It drives me crazy because I always always feel guilty about saying no. But there are only so many hours in a day!!

I have a colleague who rings and when I answer, she says “am I interrupting you?” . It’s a pointless question, of course she’s interrupting me. She knows she is, I know she is. She’s going to do it anyway. I used answer ‘no, it’s ok’ but now I say ‘yes, you are’ and she laughs awkwardly and launches into whatever she was ringing about. She never says “oh sorry, when would suit for a call?” so clearly her asking in the first place is a meaningless exercise.

If they turned up on time and that is the scheduled finish time of the meeting, then fair enough. Not otherwise.

And given the reputation of GP receptionists, no wonder people try to negotiate.

When I worked in local government (public facing) the key phrase was "the exigencies of the service". We used to make a joke of it among ourselves although not in front of bosses.

I once has a one to one with my bos and he went through all of these

I see where your coming from
We're singing from the same hymn sheet
It is what it is
You seem to have lost your mojo
To see the broader picture
Structural changes in the profession
.....

I forget the rest.

“Can I leave that with you…?” Always said by the manager so you can t say no!

I sometimes say “yes and I’m being paid too!”
🤣

I used to get that when I was fostering, that and, Don’t you have a TV?’ 🙄