Love this! Can I also add acronyms to this list 😂
One of my least faves buzzwords for no apparent reason is also ‘underpins’
I once worked this someone who described everything as ‘underpinning/underpinned’. It sends me off into a spiral whenever I see it.
See also: wearing lots of hats, put on your x hat, required to wear different hats
WHY?! WHY HATS? I don’t want to wear a hat. Gah. Stupid. Just say you need to have different skills - stop giving me weird visualisations of people wearing cowboy hats and bonnets (appreciate the latter is a product of my own mind…)
One of my pet hates currently, though not particularly business 'speak' is getting the response '100%' after any point I make - just say YES, or I agree!
It's hard getting old, pretty much everything annoys me 100% of the time now.
There's an apple tree in my back garden. This makes my back garden sound a lot more grandiose than it is. It’s really a small courtyard in which someone planted an apple tree against one of the walls.
Anyway, I digress. It’s a big’un so I was picking apples from it the other day and all I could think of was the phrase ‘low hanging fruit’. I don’t really want to think about low hanging as a phrase in general, and it struck me that suddenly I was thinking about a corporate phrase WHILST DOING SOMETHING OUT IN NATURE.
STOP CORRUPTING WHOLESOME ACTIVITIES FOR ME, FGS.
Also, looping back. Looping anywhere. No ones looping anything, we DON’T MAKE SCOOBY CHAINS HERE, DO WE?!
Love this! Can I also add acronyms to this list 😂
One of my least faves buzzwords for no apparent reason is also ‘underpins’
I once worked this someone who described everything as ‘underpinning/underpinned’. It sends me off into a spiral whenever I see it.
See also: wearing lots of hats, put on your x hat, required to wear different hats
WHY?! WHY HATS? I don’t want to wear a hat. Gah. Stupid. Just say you need to have different skills - stop giving me weird visualisations of people wearing cowboy hats and bonnets (appreciate the latter is a product of my own mind…)
These are honourable additions to THE LIST!
Go beyond... still makes me shudder 🤣
One of my pet hates currently, though not particularly business 'speak' is getting the response '100%' after any point I make - just say YES, or I agree!
It's hard getting old, pretty much everything annoys me 100% of the time now.
Haha! I've definitely done that in the past. Oh, the inhumanity.
There's an apple tree in my back garden. This makes my back garden sound a lot more grandiose than it is. It’s really a small courtyard in which someone planted an apple tree against one of the walls.
Anyway, I digress. It’s a big’un so I was picking apples from it the other day and all I could think of was the phrase ‘low hanging fruit’. I don’t really want to think about low hanging as a phrase in general, and it struck me that suddenly I was thinking about a corporate phrase WHILST DOING SOMETHING OUT IN NATURE.
STOP CORRUPTING WHOLESOME ACTIVITIES FOR ME, FGS.
Also, looping back. Looping anywhere. No ones looping anything, we DON’T MAKE SCOOBY CHAINS HERE, DO WE?!
/rant.
pivot! please God, no...
I thought of another one this week - 'close the loop' ðŸ«