What is the most annoying “buzzword” you hear on your meetings?

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Literally everything my manager says.

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I felt that hahaha

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North star

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How many freaking north stars will I have to be aware of and/or discover this year?!?!?

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“Let me noodle on this.”

Ew. Whatever you’re about to do to it, I don’t want it back after..

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@freelance, I can't think of one creepy noodle example, nor do I want to! ☺️

I can’t hear global pandemic again. It’s redundant. Pan=global 🤦‍♀️

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ATM Machine

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“Level set”
“High level view”
“Bifurcate”

Everyone please just shut up

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Don't hate on "high-level view". Where will strategy folks go without it?

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"Circle back"

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Make sure to touch base later 🤮

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Align. I loathe it for some reason.

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Me too! I refuse to use it

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Anyone else reading through these and feeling super called out? No, just me? 😅

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😂 I use "Let's take this offline" so much. Just a nicer way of saying "This is not the time and place to discuss this in depth right now"

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“Operationalize”

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“Leverage”
“Let’s not reinvent the wheel on this”

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Oh man, I said the second one today on my call, only to be echoed by another person #blindleadingtheblind

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“Net net”

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Nyet nyet

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Does anyone else hate the sound of their own voice when they hear themselves saying these trite phrases?

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“Let’s double click on this” 🤢

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No, no, no. Definitely not okay

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Iterate. Thought leadership. Deep dive. “Where the sausage is being made” will never sound right.

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Agree. Deep dive makes me feel 😳

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“Fell off my radar” 🤯🤯🤯

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OR it’s because your agency is behind on hiring and you’ve been short staffed for almost a year now. 🤯 I need that time turner from Hermione. ⏳

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“Amen and awomen”

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“Soup to nuts”

Who has nuts with soup? Or does the soup ultimately reach your nuts? Or are they hardware nuts not food nuts? And what is wrong with saying “start to finish” or “from A to Z?”

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“Good learning opportunity” when they want to use you for free work that no one wants to do.

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“Lean six” as a verb. “Let’s lean six that process.” Also I despise the use of lean six when talking about people. I can’t think of a more heartless way to treat your workforce.

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I’m in commercial, so we just use different colored glitter.

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“Learnings.” The “learnings” we got from that.

Barf.

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“We had complimenting genitalia.”

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I drink to survive.

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“Well, I guess I’ll take myself to YouTube University and figure it out.”

“YouTube University is better than most college degrees.”

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“Do you guys wanna see me eat pizza?”

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On a scale of 1-5, how upset do you have to be to apply for another job in the parking lot of your current place of employment?

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2nd month into current job at an SME.
Culture is weird to say the least.
Owner’s wife is in charge of HR.
Broke the meeting room door when opening it.
Colleagues are saying I should draft a letter of apology and offer to compensate if I’m planning to stay in this company.

A little background on why they’re saying that. There was once a stain on the carpet of their previous office. The employees were made to fork out the bill for the cleaning.

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"How long do you go to jail if you don't pay your child support?" 💀

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