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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We have a supplier at work where our Account Manager uses the term 'reaching out' in her emails
I've stopped emailing her unless I'm really stuck
It winds me up that much
I've wondered if she does it on purpose to annoy people into leaving her alone  |
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"We have a supplier at work where our Account Manager uses the term 'reaching out' in her emails
I've stopped emailing her unless I'm really stuck
It winds me up that much
I've wondered if she does it on purpose to annoy people into leaving her alone "
I do I am that mystery person  |
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"We have a supplier at work where our Account Manager uses the term 'reaching out' in her emails
I've stopped emailing her unless I'm really stuck
It winds me up that much
I've wondered if she does it on purpose to annoy people into leaving her alone "
My daughter had a nurse who used to say ...... thanks for touching base.......
touching base this - touching base that ....
Once we left her room , her ears must have burned off........ |
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"We have a supplier at work where our Account Manager uses the term 'reaching out' in her emails
I've stopped emailing her unless I'm really stuck
It winds me up that much
I've wondered if she does it on purpose to annoy people into leaving her alone
My daughter had a nurse who used to say ...... thanks for touching base.......
touching base this - touching base that ....
Once we left her room , her ears must have burned off........"
Suppose it's better than touching cloth  |
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Any new shite like unicorn, tinfoil hat. hehehe makes me ill. If it's not broken why fix it. American shite that's crept in like having the bants. Bangs.(what was ever wrong with fringe?) I could go on |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It really peas my pods when someone asks, “What you sayin’?” When they actually mean, what are you doing? Or what are you up to?
And another one is, ‘On my Billy’ when they mean on my Jack, as in Jack Jones. Which is rhyming for ‘on my own’. The billy part is from Billy No Mates!
Ah, feel better now I’ve got that off my chest.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It really peas my pods when someone asks, “What you sayin’?” When they actually mean, what are you doing? Or what are you up to?
And another one is, ‘On my Billy’ when they mean on my Jack, as in Jack Jones. Which is rhyming for ‘on my own’. The billy part is from Billy No Mates!
Ah, feel better now I’ve got that off my chest. "
Peas my pod |
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And “speak to” instead of “speak about”. I don’t get that one, some eejit on a conference call saying “that speaks to our strategic agenda” or “I’m going to speak to item 2 on the agenda”. It’s just bollocks |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Almost forgot!
"If I'm honest with you."
So you're a compulsive liar but I'm allowed the truth??? "
Yes. 
...apparently, the phsycology is, if someone says "to tell you the truth...", it's BECAUSE they're lying. That might not be true, nothing to do with my honesty, just I have no referencable basis for the fact! |
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"Yes.
...apparently, the phsycology is, if someone says "to tell you the truth...", it's BECAUSE they're lying. That might not be true, nothing to do with my honesty, just I have no referencable basis for the fact! "
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"It is what it is  "
I used to work with a girl who was incompetent. She'd fuck up everything she touched, then say "we are where we are, it is what it is, it just needs sorting now".
It was infuriating, and it was tempting to shout at her.
"We are where we are"
"BECAUSE OF YOU!!"
"It is what it is"
"BECAUSE YOU FUCKED IT UP!"
I'm so glad to be working elsewhere now |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It is what it is
I used to work with a girl who was incompetent. She'd fuck up everything she touched, then say "we are where we are, it is what it is, it just needs sorting now".
It was infuriating, and it was tempting to shout at her.
"We are where we are"
"BECAUSE OF YOU!!"
"It is what it is"
"BECAUSE YOU FUCKED IT UP!"
I'm so glad to be working elsewhere now "
Crack on |
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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago
Near Wells |
"Don’t like the word “cunt”"
I hate that word to. I can understand if you're extremely angry or just suffered something that's causing a lot of pain but when people are calling celebrities and politicians that word because they don't like them, it winds me up.
I also get put off people if they use that word unnecessarily. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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as I am currently looking for work and am constantly looking at job ads there are several terms that really annoy me
Team player [football, cricket, handball?]
good eye for detail [just the one?]
Able to communicate at all levels [got a mobile phone then?]
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"Saying "sorry, but..."
Don't be sorry - state your point and do not apologise for it. Be assertive not aggressive and you will not need to apologise. "
Honestly I’m guilty of using that word soooo many times |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"Saying "sorry, but..."
Don't be sorry - state your point and do not apologise for it. Be assertive not aggressive and you will not need to apologise.
Honestly I’m guilty of using that word soooo many times "
I do as well but when I think about it afterwards I slap my own forehead and say, in a rather direct, headteacher's voice "What have you just done that you should not be doing?"
Once I have told myself off, I promise myself not to do it again.
Old habits... aren't they? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm not being funny but..." oh yes you fucking are.
"No offence meant, just my/our preference..." OK you're racist/ageist/sizeist and you don't mind anybody knowing it.
And the one that really grinds my gears, using "yourself" when directly addressing somebody instead of a plain old "you". I've inevitably noticed this is a form of distraction or overelaboration used by people who don't know what the fuck they're talking about. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"'Your' instead of 'you're' and 'women' instead of 'woman'.. absolute grinds me! "
I once dated somebody whose profile name was "imallwomen" and I never asked if she meant she was a universal, representing women in general, or whether she meant "I'm all woman" which is a rather different concept |
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By *EAT..85Woman
over a year ago
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A New one that is obviously being used to train management at work at the moment is "I'm going to be completely transparent with you"
Because apparently they're otherwise lying fucks that can't speak the truth without that sentence at the beginning. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A New one that is obviously being used to train management at work at the moment is "I'm going to be completely transparent with you"
Because apparently they're otherwise lying fucks that can't speak the truth without that sentence at the beginning. "
Yeah that whole over-elaborate corporatespeak crap winds me up because like I said above, I feel it's there to mask a basic level of utter incompetence that would be exposed if they spoke directly in simple English. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Woke
Snowflake
Race card"
Woke has been hijacked as a term of abuse by the (mostly white) right from its origin, which I believe was black and encouraging people to wake up to the shit state society is still in for them despite increased representation and legislation.
Snowflake doesn't even deserve my thought. It's an idiotic attempt at an insult.
Race card (or any minority card), I'm OK with. I think in a climate where we're attempting to increase representation and fairness, the whatever card will be played by some actors as a lazy shortcut to the end goal. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Using the word naughty for sex; it makes me cringe. We're adults; talk like it
Calling females/women...girls.Just wrong on so many levels, it Infantilises women and quite frankly, the authorities should be alerted if you're seeking young girls! For me a 'girl' is someone 12 or under, unless I'm dating you and then it's still not ok! lol
I've had guys/blokes younger than me addressing me as a 'girl'; seriously!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bunny boiler
One film and that's it. Females are murdered in their thousands yearly to the point that Jess Phillips stands up in Parliament and reads out their names and yet; men still equate females to the deranged character in a film made years ago.
I see this on any profile; I block as you know he's an idiot; or worse! |
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Like, used as the meaningless sentence filler
