Author Topic: More things that annoy me (Read 11640 times)

goldencup · « **Reply #15 on:** May 11, 2005, 06:03:00 pm »

My boss is always 'touching base'

smurfboy · « **Reply #16 on:** May 11, 2005, 06:03:11 pm »

Oh god yes, that would drive me

! My boss does a similar thing - she always says 'no worries' when you didn't think you should have been worried anyway! So what happens then? Yes - you worry!

loulou · « **Reply #17 on:** May 11, 2005, 06:03:20 pm »

That's so bad.

smurfboy · « **Reply #18 on:** May 11, 2005, 06:05:03 pm »

Management speak in general annoys me. I don't want to 'think outside the box' or 'push the envelope'!!

loulou · « **Reply #19 on:** May 11, 2005, 06:20:42 pm »

I wouldn't want to think inside the box.

goldencup · « **Reply #20 on:** May 11, 2005, 06:28:16 pm »

We are always having to cascade information or roll it out.

goldencup · « **Reply #21 on:** May 11, 2005, 06:30:17 pm »

And yesterday when I reported a pc problem (it was freezing about every 30 seconds) to our IT support, the person the other end actually said, "It's not a problem it's an opportunity" and sounded as though she meant it!

oldspice · « **Reply #22 on:** May 11, 2005, 07:00:54 pm »

We have to "cascade" as well - and my boss is always saying "have you got a window?" when she means have I got time to speak to her.

On the bus yesterday, I heard a young girl say to her firend "Which ever way you look at it, at the end of the day, she's f*cked in it, know what I mean?"

The bus almost rocked with laughter.

goldencup · « **Reply #23 on:** May 11, 2005, 08:08:07 pm »

She really should have said "Basically" at the beginning though!

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #24 on:** May 12, 2005, 09:03:57 am »

Do you have 'joined up thinking' at work? People who talk about that generally have to draw a complex diagram when talking to you to make their task sound much more like hard work than it actually is.

Motorsport commentators use the term 'in the mix' several times per race and that bugs me too.

smurfboy · « **Reply #25 on:** May 12, 2005, 01:55:56 pm »

Football cliches annoy me. 'Saturday's game's a real six-pointer'. No it isn't! 'Bolton hadn't won in 17 away matches against Newcastle, but Diouf obviously hadn't read the script'. Because there wasn't one!!!

Bunny · « **Reply #26 on:** May 14, 2005, 10:21:42 am »

People who say "in it?" after a statement rather than a question - as in We only went there twice - in it

i believe they call it eastury English.

loulou · « **Reply #27 on:** May 14, 2005, 03:08:15 pm »

Quote from: Bunny

People who say "in it?" after a statement rather than a question - as in We only went there twice - in it

i believe they call it eastury English.

I am not familiar with this phrase.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #28 on:** May 16, 2005, 09:30:34 am »

There was an interview with Charlotte Church on the radio this weekend and she said 'innit' at the end of almost every sentence.

chocolate chick · « **Reply #29 on:** May 16, 2005, 12:59:12 pm »

White boys trying to be black.

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