Which expressions do you hate and why?

[Anonymous]

I'll start: 'serving looks'.
It feels so pandering to gen z slang but is already overused.

[Anonymous]

Office expressions in a social setting. "Circle back", etc.

[Anonymous]

Office sayings in any setting

[Anonymous]

"That's dope." The teacher used it in the elementary school this year to say that a student's work was excellent.

[Anonymous]

I've seen "drama llama" on DCUM and it's cringeworthy but I don't know if anyone says it IRL.

[Anonymous]

“Do me a solid.”

[Anonymous]

So many. I don't freak out about it because so many of these are grating to me, but I notice it and don't like it.

People who refer to their kids with really cutesy sayings, to random other adults -- kiddos, nuggets, etc. Fine if used at home with your kids, super weird if we're at work and I ask how your weekend was and you say "Oh, I took the nugs to see the Bluey stage show -- the kiddos just loved it!" Ma'am you are 42 and this is a business.

People who randomly shorten words. "Sus" instead of suspect, "biz" instead of business, "profesh" instead of professional. A lot of 20 and 30 something professional men speak this way at work. It is grating. Just say the whole word, you don't sound cool when you do this.

The word adulting.

Lots of corporate speak. Hate the word "deliverable" (what are we delivering?). Also circle back, out of pocket, others. Just a lot of words that have no meaning or are easier said with regular language, again thrown around to make someone seem "with it" but having the opposite effect, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've seen "drama llama" on DCUM and it's cringeworthy but I don't know if anyone says it IRL.

I also have only ever seen this on DCUM and also hate it. It's always used in a way that makes me think of some bitter, middle-aged woman angrily typing on her computer while rolling her eyes at the "drama llama." It almost always makes me side with the llama.

[Anonymous]

You do you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do you

Forgot the why - it's insulting somebody while pretending you're not insulting them.

[Anonymous]

You got this or I got you. Usually neither is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You got this or I got you. Usually neither is true.

+1

[Anonymous]

Mental load.

[Anonymous]

Amirite?

There's at least one DCUM poster who uses this and it is so annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many. I don't freak out about it because so many of these are grating to me, but I notice it and don't like it.

People who refer to their kids with really cutesy sayings, to random other adults -- kiddos, nuggets, etc. Fine if used at home with your kids, super weird if we're at work and I ask how your weekend was and you say "Oh, I took the nugs to see the Bluey stage show -- the kiddos just loved it!" Ma'am you are 42 and this is a business.

People who randomly shorten words. "Sus" instead of suspect, "biz" instead of business, "profesh" instead of professional. A lot of 20 and 30 something professional men speak this way at work. It is grating. Just say the whole word, you don't sound cool when you do this.

The word adulting.

Lots of corporate speak. Hate the word "deliverable" (what are we delivering?). Also circle back, out of pocket, others. Just a lot of words that have no meaning or are easier said with regular language, again thrown around to make someone seem "with it" but having the opposite effect, IMO.

Our elementary school principal solely uses the word "kiddos" to refer to the students. It doesn't help that I find her really fake and rigid to begin with but her use of "kiddos" particularly grates on me. I just picture some training where she was told this would make her sound more relatable or something. Whatever it is, it doesn't work on me.