Phrases Execs Use That Make You Cringe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open the kimono. Creepy, racist, and gross all at once.

Yeah. I often wonder if people reflect on what this actually means. So cringeworthy especially in a work environment. And I’m not a pearl clutcher by any measure.

Ive never heard this before, and if I did I would call them out on it after the meeting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open the kimono. Creepy, racist, and gross all at once.

Yeah. I often wonder if people reflect on what this actually means. So cringeworthy especially in a work environment. And I’m not a pearl clutcher by any measure.

Ive never heard this before, and if I did I would call them out on it after the meeting.

I've heard it many times. In a law firm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't wait for #metoo to come for corporate America...

No just stop its already way overplayed

[Anonymous]

"Cringe-worthy" is very used.

[Anonymous]

Pearl-clutching is also an over used word.

[Anonymous]

Placing a small "i" in front of everything to appear iCool, like Apple, or combining words to LookLike Facebook.

Please stop!

Value Added

[Anonymous]

Dialogue as a verb

Cover off

Upskill

And pretty much what everyone else said.

I can’t wait to retire simply so that I can escape this vocabulary

[Anonymous]

We need to socialize that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's phrases that I heard on business calls just this week :
Net net
Let's circle back on that
We don't have the bandwidth for that
Right size the project
We need to manage expectations
Let's level set here
Soup to nuts
What are our deliverables

Uhhhh I don’t know how old you are but I’m guessing over 40... these are all incredibly common phrases. Maybe “jargon”back in the day, but they’re not going anywhere any time soon so everyone should probably get used to it?

It’s annoying MBA talk and it rubs off on other employees so before you know it, everyone is using the jargon

Well who is inventing them in mba world?

[Anonymous]

"Skin in the game"
"reach out"
"thanks in advance"

Thanks in advance is the worst. If someone thanks me in advance and I have the option not to do the thing they're thanking me for, I don't do it. So annoying.

[Anonymous]

-Secret sauce
-Lets Stack hands
-Piggyback on what s/he said
-OOO
-Quick and dirty way
-Bubble gum and tape (temporary fix)
-Circle back
-I challenge that
-Manage up
-Get a sponsor
-Inverted pyramid
-Team building

And let's just say I am SO over playing stupid Cornhole games at work functions. Very lame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't wait for #metoo to come for corporate America...

No just stop its already way overplayed

Not in corporate America...it's still run by men.

[Anonymous]

-Birds eye view
-Gorilla in the room
-Late lunch
-In the weeds
-Fun Friday (which is always something super lame)
-Restack ( when we're moved to a different floor for renovations)

[Anonymous]

-Put that on the calendar
-my calendar is up to date
-Stand up meetings (ugh)
-Awesome sauce (ughhh)

[Anonymous]

Nobody mentioned the "blue ocean of opportunity" yet?