What are words or phrases you hate hearing in meetings? I’ll go first: “building the plane while flying it”

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Snackable content

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Whenever I'm hungry, I always check my fridge for snackable content.

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Give you time back

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“The timeline for this project is going to be fast and furious”

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“First creative check in to show ideas will be Monday morning”

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Always.

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Low hanging fruit

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Guilty as charged

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My PM keeps calling workstreams “hot and heavy” like… that doesn’t mean what you think it means

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This reminds me of when I was first dating a Dominican dude and I was cooking with his mom in the kitchen on a hot day and I said “tengo caliente” and she said “ay no digas eso, ‘tengo calor!’” Soooo embarassinggggggggg 🥲🥲🥲

as usual, there’s no time.

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“Thank you for all your hard work, we know it’s a lot but you’re doing great!” said all while not giving overtime pay, bonuses, comp time, or free meals for late nights and weekends.

My guy, we are NOT “doing great.”

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“Scrappy”

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Dammit. I use that plane metaphor almost daily. I’m on a launch brand so the phrase makes sense!

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I hate it because it doesn’t make sense at all to me, because metaphorically it would always end in a disaster.

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“Don’t spend more than/it should only take15 minutes” (and it’s always something like coming up with 10 more logo concept options based on an impossible brief after 57 rounds and we’ve tried literally everything remotely on-brief twice already)

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“Can you do this?”

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Boiling the ocean.

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Trying to do too much. Like, you can boil a pot of water easily but not the ocean.

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At scale

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Omg I have not heard that plane line, but I love it! (Sorry)

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Seeing how the sausage is made

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It’s crunch time

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Flush out the timeline

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Not only have I flushed out the work, but Ive fleshed it out, too!

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Powwow

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Let’s all hold hands and…

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