I'm not gonna lie..
- Thread starter Merlin5
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That one drives me nuts. I see it everywhere. I often turn the video off because of it. Grrrrrr.
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That reminds me sooooo much about when I saw Bill Bailey and he went on about answering "not too bad" or "not too bad all things considered"
Literally this thread is driving me literally nuts, like literally.
And what's worse is, I overuse literally because I used to comment on people overusing it and then it seemed to infect my language like some sort of word virus. I have to make a conscious effort to stop using the bloody thing.
And what's worse is, I overuse literally because I used to comment on people overusing it and then it seemed to infect my language like some sort of word virus. I have to make a conscious effort to stop using the bloody thing.
So much office/email speak!
- Going forward
- Ask the question
- Take this offline
- Action this
Middle management 'don't really know what I'm talking about' lingo.
Close of play
blue sky thinking
going forward
hit the ground running
and the list goes on
I'm heading into middle management very soon and I'm making a point of avoiding this stuff. I have seen managers that love this stuff, their managers, not so much. They use a lot of words to say very little and never actually address the
Manager: We have some challenges going forward but, blue sky thinking, if we hit the ground running we can pull through by end of play.
Exec: So we're ******?
... could have done better at the end of the day.
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Look, at the end of the day...
It's night
We had a manager called Lyndsey and she was very good at baffling waffle. She talked her way into the business and position but had no idea how to do it.
Sat in a very important meeting with her and one of our oversea's directors, great guy, proper leader and he asked a simple question. She started the waffle and after a couple of minutes he just looked around and said "can anyone translate this ****! if you don't know, don't talk, all our time is far too valuable!"
I couldn't help but smile. She didn't last too long after that.
Same director in another meeting 9 months later. Every one sat there complaining about 3-4 terrible staff and he came out with "why are we wasting time on these 4 when there's 70 other people out there that actually deserve our attention? train them or sack them but lets focus on those doing the job!"
Literally this thread is driving me literally nuts, like literally.
And what's worse is, I overuse literally because I used to comment on people overusing it and then it seemed to infect my language like some sort of word virus. I have to make a conscious effort to stop using the bloody thing.
I do this....find myself using phrases that annoy me when I hear others say them. But since I've realised I'm doing it, it must be OK, eh!
You should try doing what I do, which is to intentionally misuse the word when talking to people who hate that. They literally froth at the mouth.Literally this thread is driving me literally nuts, like literally.
And what's worse is, I overuse literally because I used to comment on people overusing it and then it seemed to infect my language like some sort of word virus. I have to make a conscious effort to stop using the bloody thing.
