Most annoying phrases heard at work

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I'm on a work-related call and have just heard the dreaded 'let's double-click on that' when someone wants to discuss something in more detail. I'm having to bite my fist.....

Does anyone else want to share?

My old manager used to say Fire Fight...when there wasn't enough staff to do the work...twat!

Circle back
What's the art of the possible?
The learning we can take from this is

And my favourite'I'm busy' no shit Sherlock, we are all busy, that's why it's called work- there's stuff to be done. Now reply to my email.

'Can we park that for now'
'We can't solutionise at this point'

Solutionise? Jesus. I've never heard that.

@ScoopT that should be a disciplinary offence saying that. Gross misconduct= fired.

Onboarding. The word. Hate it!

Haha the company I worked for loved it, full of people who loved the sound of thier own voice and every job title had 'senior' in front of it no matter what you did.

Bunch of pricks

I no longer work and these made me laugh so much. I had a colleague who used extrapolate in every bloody paragraph after she heard a director use it 😤
Close of play and gentle reminder got right on my tits everyday. The worst for me was when something went smoothly one twunt said "winner winner chicken dinner" 😒👊. Fuck. Right. Off

"Can we have a dialogue?" 😬

'Growing' something. Like growing the business. Sure, 'increasing the size of' is more wordy but at least it is frigging grammatically correct!

I agree! And we have an even worse one “growing the pie”. Talk about confusing cooking and gardening…

😂😂😂

Pressing the flesh

“End of play”

This is NOT play

The sentence That sounds Wankey to me

The word Wankey

Really does my head 🙄 in

Gets/Grates on my nerves,

Weird word and weird sentence too

That’s not appropriate language for the workplace.

It's not offensive at all but catch up really pisses me off. Mainly because they are always caught up and telling me what I missed but it's trying to be informal and still makes me think "oh shit".

At my work place everyone says "for sure" and it's become their trademark. When someone is fully integrated they start saying it to. I've escaped so far.

You don't have to be crazy to work here but it helps

'Reaching out'

“Let’s put that in the fridge”

let’s not, because we weren’t talking about food or drink

"Headwinds" and "tailwinds" seem popular at my workplace at the moment.

Oh no, I've been using both extensively in written documents.

My colleague used to come out with things like "There is a hare running which, for the record, I have shot." The client looked mystified.

Overhearing my husband's wanky team calls in lockdown was hellish. A lot of dialling up, takeaways (non food), leaning into and haloing that (just eugh).

I’ll ‘triple check that’ (is double checking not enough any more) and ‘let’s side bar that’ (as in, have a separate meeting on that issue - which never happens)

"Clear blue water."

On an annual performance review:

"This year, Simon has embedded the cornerstone tools."

Oh and…’it is what it is’ (hate that one, usually said with an Eyore style of defeatism) and ‘you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do’ What does that even mean?