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 hate anything involving pieces, I don’t know where it’s come from but it’s the most irritating bullshit bingo term ever. Like someone upthread said, “there’s a piece around ….” is nonsensical and always makes me think of codpieces.

Not my experience

I’ve worked in retail all my life and these phrases are used by just as many women as men.

If I die, its your fault!

Charming!!!

"Someone stole my pencil."

I'm a year 5 TA. The pencil was not stolen. It's either, a) on the floor or b) you took it with you outside for unknown reasons and you lost it.

I hate the dentist 😫😭💔

Same for me lol 🦷

"I don't have the bandwidth to ..." you aren't a network.

"I'm happy/delighted to now be able to share with you that..."

I don't know where this has come from, it's started popping up in a lot of my work emails and the weird thing it's mostly the men, who are a minority in my field. I'm freelance and WFH and there's a lot of emails to and fro. Here are the proofs for X, can you do this thing for next monday, this project has got the go-ahead so I'll send you a contract. We've been managing fine in this straightforward manner for decades. Now I keep getting wanky blokes being delighted to share with me that the project is going ahead or whatever.

I'm too old, cynical and Yorkshire for this. To me it just says "I've been on some kind of wanky course about communication "skills" for sucking up to freelancers who I'm about to offer a shit deal to"

I’m a GP and if I have a cough/cold, patients will often say jokingly “ooh you need to see a doctor”. I smile weakly every time, wishing I was at home in bed!

I hate this too - would a standard reminder about something really have us all crying into our cups of tea?

Do we work in the same place!!

Frankly that team does have capacity, capability is the issue!!

That seems to have died in our school now.

'Urgent' I guess because of not re-ordering in good time.

Can I have the toilet? You can go to the toilet, yes. You can’t keep it though!

"Gentle reminder" and "circle back". Oh and "touch base" Shudder🤣

“Literally”
eg “I was literally dying laughing” NO YOU WEREN’T

”circle back”

”REACHING OUT” makes my blood boil so patronising and sickly

When I say ‘how can I help’ and they say ‘I hope you can’ = instantly means they’re going to be cunt

Or "There's no I in team". "No, but there is me".

Are they using AI? It's sounds like the wanky stuff copilot suggests.

People asking what’s the narrative. In the wrong context.

It makes no sense whatsoever to me and I was always the narrator at school. But all day long people say this in meetings.

'Business critical'.
If the company is going to fold, maybe.
If you just want some numbers for a spreadsheet, maybe not. Catherine.

Lean in.

I have been leaning in to
Can you lean in to
I would suggest that we all lean in to
Let's lean in
Imagine if they were to lean in to

What's with all the leaning?

'Action' as in 'who is going to action this?'.

"Our whole school priority this term is...."

No surprises what it is this term in my secondary school!

There is a 'u' in fuck off.