My favorite is the “self-licking ice cream cone.”
What’s your take away on this?
In that space
granular
lean in
up speak
flight risk
“Circle back to us on that” was the one I hated the most. Another one over-used was “informational silos”. In the year prior to my retirement, I used to count the number of “politically correct” phrases included in each memo I received.
Another thing that irritated me was that the make-up of each committee had to have a certain number of “diverse” members. It mattered not as to whether they had any knowledge or experience on the subject matter in question, only that they checked a [ ] that needed to be filled.
Also for hiring decisions, I had to complete a form that indicated how many men, women, and “its” were considered, along with how many Caucasian, African-Americans, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Indians, etc, and then how many in each category were actually interviewed, and finally the “diversity” of the candidate ultimately chosen.
At the bottom of the form there was a footer reminding me it was illegal to discriminate based upon race, religion, color etc.
I hated those forms and was happy to exist the building on my final day.
Never heard that one until that idiot press secretary used it.
"Thank you for your time"
Always seemed silly at inter-departmental meetings.
“we’re all family here”
Sorry for the short fuse.
51. Decision as a verb. “We need to schedule another meeting to go over our decisioning processEEZ to opportunize our efficiencies.
Too funny!
Most meetings drive my husband crazy because they go down so many rabbit holes and what takes an hour or two could be summed up in a paragraph sent by email. Corporate said that no one reads emails, lol.
I get tired of hearing sports announcers/commentators saying “to your point…”. I was watching a baseball game the other day and they must have said it 20 times.
Never heard that one, but it makes sense. I was at an outdoor event and I bought some "food" from a vendor, and couldn't ingest more than one bite. There was a stray cat hanging around so I put the "food" down on the ground. The cat sniffed it, and ran away.
Only 50?
“Share with you” is one of my most un-favorite phrases.
As in “Let me share with you the results of [whatever].”
Does that mean the speaker gets half the results and I get the other half? Or each person at the meeting gets only a fraction of them?
Why not simply say “Here are the results...”?