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Stop telling your co-workers to ‘think outside the box’
New York Post ^ | April 25, 2018 | SWNS

Posted on 04/25/2018 4:56:09 PM PDT by sparklite2


Top 40 most cringe-worthy phrases used at the office

  1. Give 110 percent
  2. Think outside the box
  3. Hammer it out
  4. Heavy lifting
  5. Throw them under the bus
  6. Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched
  7. Pushing the envelope
  8. Let the cat out of the bag
  9. Let’s circle back
  10. Win-win situation
  11. Blue-sky thinking
  12. Boil the ocean
  13. Synergy
  14. Low-hanging fruit
  15. Take it to the next level
  16. Barking up the wrong tree
  17. Going forward
  18. Let’s ballpark this
  19. Run this up the flagpole
  20. Back to square one
  21. There’s no I in team
  22. Back to the drawing board
  23. Paradigm shift
  24. Elephant in the room
  25. Raise the bar
  26. Drill down
  27. Best thing since sliced bread
  28. Deep dive
  29. Skin in the game
  30. Reach out
  31. Touch base
  32. Play hardball
  33. Don’t reinvent the wheel
  34. Kept in the loop
  35. The bottom line
  36. Down the road
  37. I’ll loop you in
  38. Hit the nail on the head
  39. ASAP
  40. Team player

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To: Responsibility2nd

I imagine it refers to the red and blue pills used in the movie ‘Matrix.’


121 posted on 04/25/2018 9:46:25 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: BillyBonebrake

I hate the ones that imply a caring link verging on intimacy between entities, such as ‘reach out’ and ‘share.’ This cynicism may the function of having once had a military mind.


122 posted on 04/25/2018 9:58:00 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Heh. That’s the same dog-ate-my-homework vacuity as ‘with God all things are possible’ is to theology.


123 posted on 04/25/2018 10:02:05 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

Great thread!
Lean in.
Facilitate the meeting of stakeholders.


124 posted on 04/25/2018 10:03:23 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: rfp1234

A is A. An Ayn Rand idiom.


125 posted on 04/25/2018 10:52:43 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Inyo-Mono
When the military started enacting a policy to allow us to think outside the box and find better ways to do things, they put us in boxes with the "approved' functions to look at with rules about how we should go about it.

I had made a personalized tracking sheet for the shop I headed and some folks liked it so they decided to use it as an item to adapt for all the various shops - the officers in charge ignored that it was so effective (single sheet of paper in front of folks' training records) because it was tailored to my shop and came up with a 23 page version for "standardization"....

126 posted on 04/26/2018 3:42:45 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: Menehune56

Right! And it also annoys me when someone is reported to be “speaking out” on some mundane subject.


127 posted on 04/26/2018 4:04:47 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: alternatives?

No, but I changed jobs pretty soon afterwards. He didn’t have the nads to do it anyway. And I knew that.

He and one of the other department heads shared a brain. Always working to put the rest of the departments down so they could shine.

I’m 8 years retired. So glad I don’t hear the catch phrases and mandatory HR BS that just seemed to get worse every year.


128 posted on 04/26/2018 6:31:58 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: John Milner

I am close to retirement. The last 8 years have really seen an acceleration in catch phrases and mandatory HR BS, Diversity, respect, agile, global standard, improving journey, new way, collaboration.

Add in offices spaces like a Nike factory and flat compensation and declining benefits.


129 posted on 04/26/2018 7:27:30 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I learned the term “you can’t unbake a cake” from D. Rumsfeld. I use it on my kids!

Least favorite phrase: a “granular view”, meaning to look at something closely.


130 posted on 04/26/2018 7:37:42 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Idiocracy is here, and it votes democrat.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

In my work, I deal with late loan payments. When a customer asks me how to remove a 30 day delinquency from their credit reports, I tell them that you can’t unring the bell. What’s done is done. They were late and it’s been reported.

If they persist in getting it removed, I have also been known to tell them to invent a way-back machine. Then go back in time - pay the payment before the 30 days - and “problem solved”.


131 posted on 04/26/2018 10:30:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

*** “I see my favorite old cliché is not listed. “You can’t unring the bell” ***

PBS Cartoons have a song “You can’t untoast the toast”

The Ring of the Bell lives on!


132 posted on 04/27/2018 2:03:53 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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