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

[P.O.E.]

The latest buzzword in lib conferences is “friendly”.

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

[Chickensoup]

Red pill means to introduce someone to conservative ideas.

Kayne West has been red pilled.

[a fool in paradise]

“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?”

[Fightin Whitey]

In and out

In and out

Without a doubt

That's what it's allll about.

[a fool in paradise]

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

[Mom MD]

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

[atc23]

Stop being so god damn gay and get it done

[Trillian]

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

[BitWielder1]

Better than "think outside the box" is to have a bigger box of things you understand.

[A Cyrenian]

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!

[shanover]

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

[ichabod1]

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

[rellimpank]

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

[JerryBlackwell]

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

[Fester Chugabrew]

Ditto

[motor_racer]

“Customer-facing”

[Salvey]

“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."

[I am Richard Brandon]

Thanks! I aqree.

[Menehune56]

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

[CapnJack]

"There's no I in Team ... right!