If you've ever worked in an office environment, were there any catch phrases your co workers used that were annoying to you?

“It is what it is.”

It usually meant I was working the weekend, and I had to tell 200 people they had to as well.

When someone sneezed three times someone would yell, “You get to go home! If you sneeze 3 times, you get to go home.” Everyone would laugh. I mean, how many times can that be funny?

@Imadethisupwithnoforethought I find that to be the most nausiatingly stupid remark. Why do people say that?

Coworkers who refer to their wives as “the psycho bitch”.
I don’t understand why people seem to demean their closest relationships.

“Awesome”......the most stupidly overused and misused word in the English language.

I sat near some sales-y types that used every sort of icky buzz-word or catch phrase. If I heard it on SNL I could sure I’d hear it ad nauseum the next three weeks at work.

I also had a co-worker who would burst in to song every time a phrase reminded him of a lyric. It would happen several times each day – regardless of time or place. In a meeting, in the lunchroom..in his cube. His boss eventually asked him to please curb his tendency to sing incessantly.

@filmfann because they know they are being an asshole. You never say that when you are giving good news

imadethisupwithnoforethought I knew someone who used to say that all the time too. She was the most nitpicky person I have ever worked with. Everything had to be done in exactly her proscribed way. But when her boss dictated things she had to resort to “It is what is is” which meant things weren’t too good but what could you do about it?

One time the same woman said to me “You don’t do that!!!” like she was scolding a dog. It was for a very stupid thing. Another time I tried to delegate something and she said “No, I want you to do it!!”

She was annoying and very anal retentive but I had a worse boss after that whose pet phrase was “failing to get this done is not an option!!!” Damn, I felt like I was in the military on a mission to save the world.

anytime anyone adds “ski” on to the end of anything, especially in an office. Makes me wanna get stabby.

Your late… get to work…stop goofing around…you have already been to the bathroom twice today… ect always bothered me… Also I really hated “life isn’t fair”.

Basically anything that came out of people’s mouths annoyed me. Working in an office is fucking hell.

For a while there a company I worked for used “no brainer” a lot.

@JLeslie And how did you like that?

The company I worked for used “talking points” a lot—one manager was so stupid she read her instructed talking points list to us when she was preparing us for upcoming layoffs. My boss would often scream “The work’s not done until it’s done” and “Hours don’t matter if the work’s not done.” I put in an average of 70 hours/wk.

The company reduced their staff by 80% and nearly shut down. That’s how I got back into education. Now the buzzwords are implementation, accountability, data-driven, results-oriented, core-standards… sounds so corporate now.

“deliverables” AND .“reaching out” corpspeak for “calling you”

I agree with @plethora about the overused “AWESOME”. Very annoying indeed.

I also can’t stand it when co-workers say “Have a good one!” Have a good WHAT?? So annoying!

And one of the most irritating phrases you hear at work——always on a Monday morning——“So how was your weekend?” (Most weekends are like all the others, so when I get asked that every Monday, what’s there to say except “It was good”?

Also—-“Learning curve” to describe something new that one learns in his work. Ugh!

And—-“Moving forward..” Meaning “in the future”. Why don’t they just say “In the future, we will have to….” Sheesh!

@FutureMemory—-Lol!

@FutureMemory I have not worked in an office for decades, but I can remember the days and I agree….working in an office just SUCKS.

“think outside the box”
That means: “I just read a book on inspirational leadership that was written in 1992; now get back in your fucking box!”

@blueroses, yes. Corporate vomit.

“Oh, you’re leaving at 5pm. Wow, I wish I were a part-time employee too.”

(full-time employees leave after 7pm)

My answer is: “Well, good self management and being efficient is really a priority to me”

@plethora We all began to hate it, because it became so overused.

When I worked in the men’s department we used fabulous a lot, said faaab-u-lus. That I enjoyed actually. We said it with a smile and a giggle and knew it was over the top after a while.

Whenever a sign says “You don’t have to be crazy to work here, but it hel….....”
I couldn’t finish it because it reminds me of unfunny yet painfully enthusiastic people.

Wednesdays, twelve o’clock at noon, there was always someone I admit, one of them was me sometimes that stated that the guy with the beard the ‘joke’ was very old, hence the beard was coming to saw the week in half.