What's your favorite or least favorite corporate phrase or jargon? Example cringe: 9 women can't make a baby in a month.

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Least favorite: “opening the kimono.”

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Normalize using the word circlejerk in professional context

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I don't need to know how the sausage is made, just how it's cooked

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Ok this one I remember not understanding when I first heard it....

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“Lets not reinvent the wheel” - the amount of times i heard that and we still went on to reinvent the wheel is staggering

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Extra spokes don’t make that wagon wheel roll

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“Let’s not boil the the ocean” but then proceeds to boil the ocean

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I came here to say this. I have a client who constantly says this, then asks us to do more. It makes me grind my teeth.

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LOL what🤣 I have never heard that before

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FWIW: the full saying is “too many cooks spoil the stew”. A2 is on it meaning too many people are providing input, the other is that throwing more bodies at a problem doesn’t fix it.

Is the juice worth the squeeze?

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Just heard this one today

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“We have too many Chiefs and not enough Indians on this proposed team structure”.. while the team actually included people of Indian origin lol

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Haha that is wrong term to use in IT these days. Might as well use too many cooks in the kitchen...

Asking if I have bandwidth. I always answer i get 3g on a good day.

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What about do you have cycles?

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“Personal brand” when used to describe just who I am 🤷🏼‍♀️ yes, who I am is completely an intentional curation to be sold as a “personal brand”

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Lol. Brands are for products. Selves are for humans.

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Let us help you see the forest through the trees by picking off the low hanging fruit first instead of trying to boil the ocean so we can hit the ground running when rubber meets the road.

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That is way too many jargons in one sentence

Forge and Engorge

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Hahahahah nobody says this stop lol

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“Let’s put a lid on the squid” - stop talking about this

"Let's take this train to the next station" - switching topics

"I think we landed this plane already" the topic was already settled

"I feel like we can go ahead and jump this turnstile" - let's not worry about that right now

"I feel like this is something where we have to jump off the dock to see if we can touch the bottom" let's go and see what happens

“Yeet and retreat” - hit it and quit it

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As an alternative to ‘yeet and retreat’ - pls refer to ‘jizz and out you is’

An old boss in the Army used to say “don’t tell me about the labor, I just want to see the baby.”

Glad that one’s not common in the corporate world.

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Leverage 🙄

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SA 1 - wait, what? Heresy!

I kinda like the phrase “putting lipstick on a pig”

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Oh but you can OW2. Hence my other quote below

It took me forever to figure out "high level" = broad perspective. Always figured "high level" equivocated to more in-depth discussion

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I don’t think equivocate means what you think it means here lol

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That's amazing lmao.

Circle back, reach out, connect, and touch base all suck. Out of pocket is catching on now and is also stupid.

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Sometimes I use a few of these in the same sentence as a joke. “We’ll circle back and reach out to touch base on this topic” 😂😂

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OP, what is cringe worthy about your saying? It makes a great point that you can’t always just add people and reduce a timeline.

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OP I think you missed the point completely. The saying refers to patience. It takes 9 months to make a baby, and even if you had 9 mothers, you couldn’t reduce the time. I think I’ve heard Buffett say this in long-term investing context.

30,000 ft view

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9 women can’t make a baby in a month is officially my new favorite saying

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But I can try to help with that!!!

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