OT - Words that make you cringe?

[Steve Dude Barr]

Put your hands on your head and slowly walk backwards to the sound of my voice.

 

[ScottCoLefty]

"At the end of the day...."

Shut UP, you parroting morons!

At the end of the day comes night.

Another way to get me puffed up is to use the term "proactive".

Grrrrrrrrrrr.

And yeah, Biff, "outside the box". Makes me want to gnaw furniture in half.

AH! "We need to be proactive here" drives me nuts...
"We all need to 'Step it up'." is another great one

 

[Beth]

"sterlings holding for you"

 

[Beth]

AH! "We need to be proactive here" drives me nuts...
"We all need to 'Step it up'." is another great one

ew, I hate "baby steps" too...

 

[Bill]

I hate it when the word "previously" is shortened to "pre-." To me, that changes the whole meaning of the word!

For example:

pre-heated - Um, no, that would be the state the oven was in before it was heated. There's nothing wrong with saying, "Heat the oven to 250 degrees."

pre-cooked - This was before the object was cooked. Nothin' wrong with, "Honey, go to the store & buy a package of cooked hamburger patties."

pre-packaged

pre-recorded

pre-owned

Etc., etc.

AAAARRRGGH!

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

"It's all ready to be shipped but we don't have pickups for it yet."

 

[Big Poppa]

"sterlings holding for you"

How about the cellphone message "Hi this is Beth, I hate to bother you with this BUT"

 

[Beth]

How about the cellphone message "Hi this is Beth, I hate to bother you with this BUT"

 

[Big Poppa]

he he he hehhhh thanks for laughing

 

[phatduckk]

What about Apple... core

hey u just made that up

 

[phatduckk]

stuff that sucks to hear at work ...

its not just the words but the tone of voice too ...

"hey arin ..." LOL with that spcecial "we f-ed up and you gotta clean someone's mess" tone of voice

"oh and one more thing ..." this means a deadline was pushed up a week or two or something new and huge just landed on my plate

"did you check your mail?" .... i never check email and work people know this. so whenever i hear this i know im in for a bad surprise

 

[Dargin]

it gets old when week after week Big Poppa begs me to give him insight into Football picks.........

 

[Big Poppa]

it gets old when week after week Big Poppa begs me to give him insight into Football picks.........

Im in first place through ten weeks and dargin is in the cat box DFL. His mother and his dog are beating him........

 

[Dargin]

First he lies about the origin of the "Dargie Delight", now I am not his personal handicapper.

 

[higher1]

First he lies about the origin of the "Dargie Delight", now I am not his personal handicapper.

I would imagine this is what happens when your record matches that of the Raiders??

LOL

 

[Dargin]

More like the Colts, Poppa's picks are kinda like the Texans..futile...

 

[Victrola]

Steve Dude Barr's most hated words:

"Last call"

 

[Victrola]

Bull**** Bingo

Some of you have mentioned those trendy catch phrases....such as:

think out of the box
put this on your radar screen
Step it up a notch
real estate bubble
let's raise the bar (this one really puts me in a homicidal mood)
proactive (see 'raise the bar')
at the end of the day
team-building exercise (this one makes me sharpen all my knives, muttering to myself)
baby steps
bandwith

etc.

So, here's how you play Bull**** Bingo = someone has called a meeting in the conference room, so everyone else gets a 'bingo' card with all the little catch phrases on it. Whenever anyone uses a catch phrase, you mark it off on your card until you have BINGO (just like regular Bingo) and then you stand up and yell, "bull**** bingo!"

If anyone has seen Office Space (what a great movie!) another good one is, "Someone's got a case of the Mondays". If I worked with someone who said that in that tone of voice, they'd find them with cement booties in the nearest river.

 

[Bill]

Stuff I hate with a burning, flaming passion at work:

"Rick just called......" (he's the workaholic assistant director who pulls things out of his @$$ for people to do)

"We're gonna have a meeting...."

"Can you e-mail me the latest version of......."

"Can you burn me a disc of....."

And the most dreaded thing of all:

RRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGG......RRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGG..... (my phone ringing when it's my boss calling from the office next door...she tends to call 73.8 times a day for minor little things that really piss me off!)

 

[Bill]

If anyone has seen Office Space (what a great movie!) another good one is, "Someone's got a case of the Mondays". If I worked with someone who said that in that tone of voice, they'd find them with cement booties in the nearest river.

I LOVE that movie!! The first time I saw it, I was hooked after the first 3 minutes...it already looked like it was based on my daily life.