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?!

I wrote that on my appraisal last week. 😂

It couldn’t be further from the truth (I got ChatGPT to write it).

"Charity starts at home" when they have to decline to donate to charity, said multiple times a day , every day !!

Reading this thread I can't help thinking that if dozens of people a day don't understand/agree with your booking system/charitable aim/archaic use of language, it is you that is the problem!

Yes it was me. Literally every day my manager would say there's a piece around x,y and z.

Its such a nonsense phrase and drove me crazy.

“You’re setting me up to fail” about any reasonable expectation. If you work with the ‘clients’ I work with, you’ll know what I do!

”We know things are tough at the moments and we thank you for all your hard work. We’ve designed these processes to make it easier for you and all you need to do it fill in all these new forms and do this additional training before X date” [sic]- senior management/ MPs.

Hahaha yes!

Art of the possible - fuck off!

I also hate “the * piece” even heard some bloke on the London marathon coverage saying it. Really irritating.

Also “kind of” For example “If we kind of do ‘x’ then the effect will kind of be ‘y’ “ That gives me such rage - are we doing it or not? Will they be the effect of not?!

“Pivot,” “circle back”

Well you can’t blame them for asking can you?! Firstly, I assume they could do with being seen sooner and at my GPs, they often actually do have something sooner!

I never lied about my result!
The bank told me I had passed my probation and I was now a permanent member of staff.
Weeks after that they asked to see my exam certificates for their records, they were fine about me failing my maths exam as they’d offered me the job after I completed their tests months before I actually sat my exams.

Can you get me a start there please? If you put up with that, you'll put up with anything.

🤣🤣🤣👍

I teach law at university. It's a very specialised branch of law and at postgraduate level very very niche but they still expect me to know all the laws.

If you have TikTok have a watch of this video it’s hilarious (though could be triggering for some 😂). I’m not able to upload it unfortunately.

Another vote here for “reach out” and all derivatives of that. Ffs seriously it’s so lame!

This reminds me of a job I had years ago where I had to ensure parts were delivered to the assembly line to keep it going. All deliveries went through the inspection department. We would mark everything that was ‘priority‘ with a yellow sticker .

The trouble was there were loads of them so some had 2 stickers.

The inspection manager threw a complete wobbly and stuck yellow stickers on everything and everyone!

First of all, I use a hearing aid and lipread, so I need to see your face

'Mumble...mumble...mumble mumble'

Can you say that again, please? and maybe try moving your lips instead of mimicking a waxwork dummy attempting ventriloquism.

'Mumble..mumble...<turns head away>..mumble

WHAT?

'Nothing'

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, but I work in a fixed price law firm, so basically anyone with half a brain realises that this is a high volume business, yet they still want to take up my time with stupid questions. I have so many clients that I want to say to them you need to go to someone you can pay by the hour so you can call them up for a chat, I have so many clients I only have 30 minutes a week to work on your file, if I’m lucky, so no I won’t call you up to listen to why you’re special and shouldn’t have to pay tax like everyone else.

"Does that make sense?" during meetings. I find it so condescending

I say this because I'm autistic and worry that I don't make sense to NT people.

Urgghh, to what exactly?

I’ve just thought of another after I heard it twice at work yesterday!

What does the baby weigh? When it’s 30 seconds old and still attached to the umbilical cord 🤣

Can I have this binded ?/( from university educated students)
No but you may have it bound …

Double down.
What a lot of bollax!