Stop telling your co-workers to ‘think outside the box’

New York Post ^ | April 25, 2018 | SWNS

[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

[Does so]

17. Going forward

First heard in Slick Willy's administration.

Made sense, as they were always goofing-up—sorta like, "Let's leave all this clamor behind".

[XEHRpa]

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[EQAndyBuzz]

We need “visibility” into (select a project).

[ScoochDude]

I’ve spent my entire life trying to get inside the box.

[PAR35]

Even better than mine.

[House Atreides]

Every time I thought outside the box at work, they told me “Don’t reinvent the wheel.”
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That’s because you needed to “GET ON THE SAME PAGE” with them.

[easternsky]

Don,t try and be what you ain't, if you try and be what you ain't, then you ain't what you is.

[rfp1234]

It is what it is.
(That one’s OK, Rush uses it a lot).

[Cecily]

I thought that “Big Picture View” had been superseded by “30,000 foot view.”

[SueRae]

10,000 ft. Level... inclusive..

[mylife]

Ughhhh...

[mylife]

“Oh well, Rome wasn’t burnt in a day”

[Alberta's Child]

I once worked for a company that claimed it was built on a culture of "entrepreneurship," but it was impossible to be an entrepreneur when you were constantly dealing with the administrative bullsh!t they required everyone to complete.

When I left, I told them it's impossible to be an entrepreneur in a company with an HR department and a CFO.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL.

[Responsibility2nd]

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

[mylife]

LOL!

[TLI]

30. Reach out

GAG, that is known as calling, emailing or contacting.

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Also, “moving forward”

Good grief, that is somthing a car does.

Please return to sanity and go back to saying “from now on...”

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[bfkirk]

Wheelhouse. Ugh.

[Responsibility2nd]

Is anyone else tired of the latest cringe worthy phrase?

Redpill it.

What does that even mean?

[Responsibility2nd]

As in having the common courtesy???