Reply to: Most annoying phrases

[brollyman]

Solution:

As in "it's our latest customer service solution"

or "tooth whitening solution"

etc.etc.etc

[TheFaQQer]

"One team..."

[Zippy]

Remember Gus from Drop the Dead Donkey?

He would say, 'Let me pop this into your perculator and see if it comes out brown' etc

Hilarious.

Oh yes!
Underperforming in the team togetherness department ....

[Lucy]

Remember Gus from Drop the Dead Donkey?

He would say, 'Let me pop this into your perculator and see if it comes out brown' etc

Hilarious.

[richard-af]

Team.

Never worked in one yet. Groups, yes; teams, no. It's a pipe dream.

[Zippy]

An a guy I used to work with managed to start nearly every sentence with "It's basically a case of..." or "What it boils down to". Annoying at first, funnier as time went by.

If we were really lucky he'd combine the two into "What it basically boils down to, its a case of...", which doesn't really make any sense at all.

What are the most annoying phrases you've heard?

God we must work in the same office.
In meetings I find myself muttering 'get to the fffing point'

[realityhack]

Some

MBS (management bovine excrement)

generators

for you


And this lovely Web 2.0 one.

[richard-af]

I suspect in some cases that they're still dressed by their mothers.

Or their nannies.

[chicane]

Amazes me how these people coming out with this stuff can dress themselves in the morning.

I suspect in some cases that they're still dressed by their mothers.

[shoes]

I'm always impressed with 'going forward'. So you're ruling out time travel then, well done. No-one mentioned 'synergy' yet. Amazes me how these people coming out with this stuff can dress themselves in the morning.

[MobileCheese]

'Raising the bar' does my head in

[Diver]

Smile, it may never happen

It already fekin did alright, so die you overly happy sanctimonious Barsteward.

I may have to kill the next person that says it to me when I'm miserable.

[Old Greg]

"First things first..."

"Let's run that one up the flagpole and see who salutes it..."

"Step up to the plate..."

Yep -they're annoying - what the hell is step up to the plate about?

[TheFaQQer]

"First things first..."

"Let's run that one up the flagpole and see who salutes it..."

"Step up to the plate..."

[TheFaQQer]

Omg
Wtf