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?!

Not at work anymore but I used to hate and still do :

Deliver at pace.

Or people saying. ‘ It made me emotional’ as opposed to happy, angry, annoyed etc.

The woman who runs the staff canteen is constantly hearing "Can I get a coffee?" or "Can I get a sandwich?"

She never tires of saying "Errrm no. I'll get it and you can pay for it, how does that sound?" 😁

Can we just lean in

At the moment it’s ’spin up’ instead of ‘create’ or ‘make’ in relation to draft documents, web pages, templates, everything!

I don’t know where it came from but its irritation-quotient is high!

😂

What’s happening with ABC? Did you look on the system? It’s all on there, along with next actions and review dates. And that would have taken you 8 seconds and let me continue uninterrupted, rather than the minute plus it has taken to message me, me look it up, write you a summary and send it back, and then find I’ve completely lost my train of thought.

I can’t find… Did you actually look? Or did you just think I’ll message Wilf, she’ll send me the link?

Can I just pick your brain? No mate, you can’t. Partly because you’re the seventh person to pick it in the last hour and I need to do my own work, and partly because when I need help with your area of expertise, you’re always too busy. Sod off.

Nobody thinks they’re the first to make this joke. Part of living in society is having this kind of background small talk that becomes formulaic between strangers. They make the joke because they’ve heard the joke and it’s ’what you say’ to the cashier when this happens. It’s part of a social contract that says ‘we are the same, we acknowledge this issue, it is ok, we know how it goes’.

"hope this helps"

Sounds so ridiculously passive aggressive.

We need to 'pivot' is driving my colleagues crazy at the moment 😂

Yes. WTF does that even mean?

Good for her!

"That was a rich discussion"

😤

sensecheck

let's sensecheck it first, can I sensecheck this with you all, I sensechecked it with a working group and . . . .

I was just going to write this

From the manager that does fuck all while we run around like headless chickens

Make me want to headbutt her

She sounds annoying (what with it being a common phrase)

Absolutely agree ...the only people allowed to use "reach out" in a working capacity are the Four Tops!

People using the words “like” and “apparently” as punctuation. I’m looking at you dc2 and 3!
Reaching out. Journey. Why is everything a journey now?

Namechanged as these will be recognised by anyone in my team, but 'ecosystem' and 'workstream'. Someone kept a tally of mentions of the latter in a recent meeting (56).

Also, who knew that "socialising" a plan didn't mean taking it out for a drink?!

There is only one thing that springs to mind.... (also all I can think of when anyone mentions pivot tables lol!)

KPI's eg. 'why aren't you meeting your KPI's' 'let's rv our KPI's this month' 'X manager wants to add another KPI' .

Manager on 100k 'Why arent we meeting them'?

Me - Because this stupid government has cut our nhs teams budget 5% every year for past 3 years you big dumbass

Loads of things:

I hope this finds you well (no you don’t)
Happy New Year! (in late January)
Thanks much (annoying Americanism)
Warm regards (just ew)
Sorry I was on mute (wake up for god’s sake)

''It's a couple of things, actually....''
No. Just....no.

"Agile"....we gave to be agile, agile working.

Reminds me of my Brownies badge for agility. I have to resist the urge to stand in one leg or touch my toes whenever I hear this.

not just at work, but ‘super’ instead of perhaps ‘very’

e.g “I know I’m super early!”

but i feel the same with all the American words and phrases being used in Britain now. It really annoys me!

“It is what it is”

well yes I know it is.