Words that disengage the brain:

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  • cms6300
    cms6300 Posts: 163
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    Paradigm. Whenever someone uses it I immediately ask them to define it (as long as they're not higher up on the food chain then i am.) have yet to get a coherent definition - always more of a "well, I know it when I see it,"
  • zeeeb
    zeeeb Posts: 805 Member
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    thinking outside the square
    moving forward

    seriously, it doesn't make you sound businessy, smart, manager material, it just makes you sound dull and unimaginative for copying the "business" phrase...
  • missdaisy79
    missdaisy79 Posts: 566 Member
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    "Arks" as in Arks me a question - The word is ASK

    makes me think humanity is doomed

    My boss says this ALL the time. I'm sure she's not referring to a wooden boat full of animals. She also says "pacific" instead of "specific".
  • cockneypaul
    cockneypaul Posts: 52 Member
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    My boss says this ALL the time. I'm sure she's not referring to a wooden boat full of animals. She also says "pacific" instead of "specific".

    Funny that we are both from the UK, perhaps its just this side of the pond that the fools say it. haha
  • charlie18091980
    charlie18091980 Posts: 23
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    Not so much had it since my move to England but, at a certain international investment bank in Glasgow, my boss would always say "Charlie, can you talk to that please?" Usually said during a meeting where what he meant was "Charlie, can you please talk us through that, give an update, etc" Oh my god, it used to really boil my p*ss!!!:explode:
  • leynak
    leynak Posts: 963 Member
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    My fiance says suspicioned all the time. I just want to scream "It's suspected!!" I've corrected him before but it didn't help.

    I also can't stand just sayin' & right-as in I know, right?
  • wannagofast27
    wannagofast27 Posts: 21
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    WTG
  • L00py_T0ucan
    L00py_T0ucan Posts: 1,378 Member
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    WHEN SOMEONE SAYS:
    -expresso
    -skill set
    -incentivize

    I HEAR:
    -mmm fast coffee!
    -mad skillz
    -baconize
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,720 Member
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    -Journey
  • Sh1tsRainbows
    Sh1tsRainbows Posts: 1,227 Member
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    initiative

    potential

    when i was your age

    "YOU's"

    Seriously?? like my daughter would say.

    Right?
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,248 Member
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    Saying the letter "H" as "hay-tch." IE, the NHL would be "En hay-tch el."

    When I worked at an animal hospital and people spelled their name with a letter "hay-tch" in it, my brain totally shut down. I had to ask them to spell it at least three times.
  • elenathegreat
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member
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    "Jelly" in place of "Jealous"
    "Prego" or "preggers" in place of "Pregnant."

    Hadn't heard Jelly, but every time somebody says any of the pregnant variations, it makes me want to strangle some spaghetti.
  • elenathegreat
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member
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    "Jelly" in place of "Jealous"
    "Prego" or "preggers" in place of "Pregnant."

    Hadn't heard Jelly, but every time somebody says any of the pregnant variations, it makes me want to strangle some spaghetti.
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
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    Leverage.

    Purposely.
  • galegetsthin
    galegetsthin Posts: 1,352 Member
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    The "jelly" one drives me batty!!!!! I HATE it!! I would love nothing more that to turn the silly little Kardashian Valley girl wanna be's INTO jelly when I hear one say it.

    "axe" instead of "ask"
    "Libary" instead of "Library"
    "compruter" for "computer"
    "pacific" for "specific"


    These are a few of my (least) favorite things..........
  • MrsSWW
    MrsSWW Posts: 1,590 Member
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    Like

    As in, like, when people can't complete a sentence without, like, inserting 'like' every few words. It gets to be, like, a real pain in the, like, butt....
  • chameleon73
    chameleon73 Posts: 119 Member
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    'Boss' /'Like a Boss'

    What the heck does it mean, anyway? And who's boss are we talking about?
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
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    My fiance says suspicioned all the time. I just want to scream "It's suspected!!" I've corrected him before but it didn't help.
    I too hate when people suspicion stuff.

    Governance
    Buy-in
  • KCalmeyn
    KCalmeyn Posts: 36 Member
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    When people add an "S on the end of a word that shouldn't be there. FordS, K-MartS, Wal-MartS, TargetS,

    So and so works at Fords.... When I was at Targets....K-Marts has.....
  • sinistertitan
    sinistertitan Posts: 603 Member
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    World Class.

    I'm checked out as soon as it comes out of the boss's mouth.

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