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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: sparklite2

The latest buzzword in lib conferences is “friendly”.

IOW, if you don’t agree, that’s not very friendly.


41 posted on 04/25/2018 5:28:59 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Red pill means to introduce someone to conservative ideas.

Kayne West has been red pilled.


42 posted on 04/25/2018 5:29:08 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: sparklite2

“Do your due diligence”

It is grammatically ugly, insulting, and is a cop out. “Did you do everything in your power to see that what you say is right?”


43 posted on 04/25/2018 5:29:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: ScoochDude
In and out

In and out

Without a doubt

That's what it's allll about.

44 posted on 04/25/2018 5:29:19 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: precisionshootist

If it is always what it is, than a fluid transgender would not be.


45 posted on 04/25/2018 5:29:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: sparklite2

The list is lacking my very favorite one “move the needle” I wish people understood how stupid they sound when they adopt corporate speak....


46 posted on 04/25/2018 5:31:46 PM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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To: sparklite2

Stop being so god damn gay and get it done


47 posted on 04/25/2018 5:34:37 PM PDT by atc23
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To: sparklite2

In today’s world, if you think outside the box, they’ll fire you for not thinking like them.


48 posted on 04/25/2018 5:34:45 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: sparklite2
Better than "think outside the box" is to have a bigger box of things you understand.

49 posted on 04/25/2018 5:35:19 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: sparklite2
One that I hate, "time to put your big boy pants on".

If you're worried about fashion then shut up and get out of the way!

50 posted on 04/25/2018 5:39:08 PM PDT by A Cyrenian (Nobody is perfect. And I'm nobody.)
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To: Pontiac

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. The “fix” aka “change” from liberals has broken this country.


51 posted on 04/25/2018 5:43:58 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Does so

“Reinventing” seemed to come from that time as well.


52 posted on 04/25/2018 5:44:09 PM PDT by ichabod1 (If there is to be war, let it begin here.)
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To: precisionshootist

—you beat me to it—I cringe every time I hear that—


53 posted on 04/25/2018 5:46:15 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: sparklite2

There is an idiot in every meeting. If you cannot spot the idiot in the meeting then it is you.


54 posted on 04/25/2018 5:49:17 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Alberta's Child

Ditto


55 posted on 04/25/2018 5:49:54 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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To: sparklite2

“Customer-facing”


56 posted on 04/25/2018 5:50:11 PM PDT by motor_racer (If you don't read the news, you are uninformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed.)
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To: WayneS
“At the end of the day” is annoying to me. The problem is I sometimes use it myself...

Alternate it with "When all is said and done."

57 posted on 04/25/2018 5:50:16 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: Alberta's Child

Thanks! I aqree.


58 posted on 04/25/2018 5:53:02 PM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: sparklite2

All of a sudden you don’t “contact” or “call” someone. You “reach out.”


59 posted on 04/25/2018 5:53:07 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: PAR35
"There's no I in Team ... right!


60 posted on 04/25/2018 5:53:36 PM PDT by CapnJack
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