I'm not gonna lie..

This thread caused me to reflect on an event a few years ago.

We had a rep come in to my employer to give a talk on a product we had started to sell. Over the course of five minutes he must have used the term "you need to au fait yourselves with this" on at least twenty occasions. I am intolerant of nonsense-English anyway, but this random amalgamation of languages pushed me over the edge and I had to walk out. What a ****.

Also, as previously mentioned, the use of "we need to action that" in the office.
 
"Cheap at half the price" - no **** - it would be cheap at half the price!!!

"Oooh, there's nothing worse!" when describing something ridiculous like a cup of tea that's gone cold - actually there is something worse - how about losing your legs in a combine harvester accident for starters!!
 
I've never had an issue with most business speak. "Moving forward", "close of business", "end of play" all mean things.

"I'm not gonna lie" is extremely common in South Wales, you will hear it multiple times in almost any situation.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
Lol.

Wife is from Yorkshire and although her accent is all but gone, she cannot get the right 'was' or 'were' right at times.

Were can be used in place of was when connected to a singular pronoun. The reverse – i.e. producing constructions such as we was and you was – is also not unheard of.

(1) She were a good worker.

(2) There was a lot of us that were sort of seventeen.

(3) You were mentioning windscreen wipers…….

(4) You was only away a bit.
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I live in Newcastle where they never get "done" and "did" right.

I must correct my daughter half a dozen times a day when she says "I done it at school." Or similar.

The problem is that it's now a reflex for me and I end up correcting grown ups in meetings at work.
 
FlakGunna said:
Not gonna lie, this thread sounds like something from mumsnet.
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Yeah, this is deffo a thread pulled from Mumsnet :D

Phrases that grind my gears are normally the ones associated with Bull**** Bingo. The language spoken by overpaid public sector middle managers in boardrooms with aircon (usually the only room on the premises to have aircon). Google it... lots of images of bingo sheets with such phrases.

Going the extra mile.
Customer driven.
Leading edge.
Bottom line.
Game plan.
Ballpark figure.
Results driven.
Think outside the box.
Reinventing the wheel.
Back to basics.
Going forward.
Carbon footprint.
Paradigm shift.
Synergy.
'Efficient', 'empower', 'robust', 'optimise' and other similar weevil words.
Benchmark (when not used in IT).

Then some IT ones too (again Bull**** Bingo related):

Social media.
Ecosystem.
Blog-o-sphere.
Hashtag.
Web 2.0.
In the cloud.
Inbox me.
Collaborate.
ICT (instead of IT) :p
 
I had a meeting today with a young lady from marketing. When I asked for some advice on a subject she said to me, “I’m not gonna lie, that’s like outside my wheelhouse”

I had no idea what she meant at the time which was awkward.
 
I went to college with a guy who said, "............stuff like that" quite a lot.

I have to admit that stuff like that can be a little annoying. But what can you do sometimes, you've just got to put up with stuff like that.
 
Saffy said:
I went to college with a guy who said, "............stuff like that" quite a lot.

I have to admit that stuff like that can be a little annoying. But what can you do sometimes, you've just got to put up with stuff like that.
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When you can't find something and some great thinker advises you "it will be in the last place you look".
No really? I was gonna find my keys then keep looking.
 
Thinking about it, I don't think I can bring myself to more strongly dislike anything than management speak.

Entire emails, team pep-talks, org-wide meetings (etc) filled with hot air. Management buzzwords and empty speech.

Yup, for me management speak is the ultimate evil.
 
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