These do get annoying.
bttt.
What?? “Lean into” is not on the list?
I’ve been retired six years and ALL of those are annoying as hell. But “Lean into” is my all-time raise-the-hair-on-my-neck phrase. Yuck.
“Take it offline” reminds me of “Get a room, you two.”
At the end of the day, the bottom line is…it is what it is. 🤣
“It is what it is.”
I’m kind of ok with people using “circle back,” It lets me know who the left-wingers are without baiting them into an argument. It’s sort of like Coexist bumper stickers, or women with hyphenated sir-names, it’s a dead giveaway.
As in, "I have an ask"
Wife picked this up as a nurse manager. Drives me crazy.
Likewise every time someone attaches the word “crack” to any recipe. Crack chicken, Crack dessert bars, Crack 7-layer dip, etc.
Peach
Silos.
With all the Indians Mike Lee has brought in get ready for
“Do the needful”
“I am wanting”
I worked in several offices during the early 1990s.
I have never heard #12: Boil The Ocean, or
#20: Its On My Plate.
I’m wondering if the writer made “Boil The Ocean” up himself.
I’ve been seeing “cohort” a lot lately. Already tired of it.
ROFL!
Although I’d be lyin’ if I claimed I NEVER use ANY of these. 😉
I thought #16 “ping me” was traced back to “pinging” a submarine or other vessel via sonar.
downstream
socialize
I will say I'm hearing less of the buzzword talk in the office.
Gawd, every time I hear that I thing of Raggedy Jen the Skankenstein.
When did “price” become “price point” and “disrespect” become a verb”?😬
I dislike all of those and have made it a point never to use them.
“Reach out” has always annoyed me. It’s *contact* damn it!!!
“going forward”
phrase used, especially in business, to mean “in the future”
In the future? NO.
Going forward is something a car does.
“From now on” is what the little hammerheads are trying to say, but Stupidity reigns Supreme with the bulk of the population.
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“Reach out.”
Oh hell, just gag me please.
“reaching out” is something people do with their hands.
If someone wishes to communicate with someone else they contact them, call them,
meet with them, converse with them.
“Reaching out” sounds like something fags would say.
Probably where it came from...
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Idea for next year? How about "21 Office Buzzwords Stories It’s Time to Banish Forever?"
-PJ