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I know we're going through some growing pains, continuing our commitment to efficiency and accountability.
"We're family"
I fell for this once. Thought it sounded great. Everyone at that place hated each other, constantly spread rumors and sabotaged each other's work.
I can’t read this shit on the weekend you guys are killing me :p
“We work hard and play hard” makes my skin crawl. Also, had a manager who would describe every situation with a war analogy. Sorry Bob, this is Finance, we’re not literally killing each other. Take it down a notch.
"double click" to mean "focus on" or "explore in more depth"
This one comes from Excels Pivot tables, where you double click to see the source data, but it got picked up and bastardized
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Can we "just double click on that" for a second?
shudders
What would a linux user say for this?
"Can we just dot slash that then chmod plus x that semicolon dot slash that for a second"
A linux user would just throw a craft beer bottle.
I'm in this comment and I begrudgingly like it. Carry on.
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I had one retail manager who constantly kept using "moving forward" for everything. It was so freaking grating!
I hate that I've learned to censor myself around these soulless void-skulls by replacing "problem" with "challenge." No, I don't "solve problems", because to acknowledge something as a problem is negativity we just don't need here at Emperor Clothing Inc! I "tackle challenges"!
It's so freaking goofy and they just eat it up. Everything needs some sort of business-positive spin or they lose their minds and think you're not being a "team player."
I’ve got a manager that’s replaced problem with “opportunity to succeed”. Well, I’ve got 99 opportunities to succeed I guess.
Well, I’ve got 99 opportunities to succeed...
...but management ain't one!
Seeing opportunities everywhere. The same underlying mechanism is at work here as with challenge: Let's replace the word for this bad thing with a different word that means something similar but positive. And then it looks like something good! I am very smart
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