Words or phrases that drive you mad

kathleenryd

vikingaero wrote: »

I hate most office speak. Even worse are the number of numpties who insist on using it.

Blue Sky Thinking, Touch Base, Solutions. Synergy. End to End. Think outside the box.

People who use office speak think that just because God gave you a mouth doesn't mean you have to use it. In fact I'd go further to say that if you use office speak with me, my immediate thought would be: "You utter c*ck."

10 pm Monday BBc4 new drama '2012' You'd love it.

shindig_addict

Love this thread, you grumpy old sods!

A lot of the aforementioned but I especially loathe 24/7.

Also, I'll be honest with you... what, you usually lie to me?

shindig_addict

O yeah, and 'pushing the envelope'.

cassieB57

"tell me about it" errr. I just did!

Mrs_P_Pincher

Is it only me who knows the difference between 'disinterested' and 'uninterested' and knows that neither can be used as a substitute for the other?

Nice to see the pedants revolting

Mrs P P

vikki.f

already mentiioned "im not being funny but"

at the end of the end

statistically speaking

excuse my french

Sagz_2

MacDonalds drive thru staff have taken to saying 'See you later'. As I'm usually driving from one side of the country to the other I tell them that if they do 'see me later' it will mean I'm lost.

kathleenryd

Right - for all grumpies - watch BBC 4 'Twenty Twelve' on Monday.

Did anyone watch it this week? I thought it was cringingly funny.

williacg

kathleenryd wrote: »

Right - for all grumpies - watch BBC 4 'Twenty Twelve' on Monday.

Did anyone watch it this week? I thought it was cringingly funny.

What's the programme all about? I'll try to rememberand and watch it.

williacg

My absolute favourite has to be when we attend training sessions, you can guarantee the following phrase comes up at some point "Come on guys, let's all work together, because there's No 'I' in TEAM, we're one unit" [there is one in TWIT though].