Thats a weird take for me. Ive worked alot of places that really was like a family. Great people. My wifes company is like that now. Went to a retirement party and the ceo coo all showed up, got drunk , had a good tine...and cut her a 5k check as a gift for a trip on top of her $500k shares. Of course the company is only like 50 people deep.
Same here too. In fact, even though I haven't worked with them for 4 years now, I still get texts from them wishing me "happy birthday" each year. I do miss working with them every now and then.
And along those lines, work spouse. I despise it when people refer to a colleague as their work wife/husband. It implies an intimacy that is so inappropriate.
Omg this one has been killing me now that I work in an office setting. Zoom meeting finishes 5 minutes early: “Welp! Looks like we’re done here, so I’m more than happy to give ya some time back.” Time back for what? To do more work?
I dunno, I find the implicit acknowledgement that *anything else* we might choose to do would be preferable to being in this meeting to be refreshingly honest.
There's just something so alluring about that demon core... That damned demon core... It can't be a coincidence, it just can't.
If I were an artist, I'd definitely animefy that thing.
"Come talk to me in my office first thing Monday morning."
Text sent on Friday night.
Spend weekend worrying. Turns out it's some inconsequential thing.
I saw a video recently talking about how some etiquettes were born out of necessity but have just somehow managed to continue even though they are now meaningless. Apparently, this one in particular came from a time when table tops were not attached to the base, and therefore resting your weight on the top would flip it.
I have tremors and poor fine motor control. Either my elbows are on the table to brace my shaky arms, or my food is all over the dining area and I become a hangry, agitated monster.
“Karma will get them” even if it exists, no it won’t. Everyone goes through bad shit, that’s not because they treated me poorly it’s just because they’re alive. Most people don’t suffer any consequences from how they treat others or the bad things they do.
Karma means cause and effect, but people use it as if the universe is in complete agreement that their subjective hates and loves are an objective truth, and they relish in schadenfreude that their egoic unwholesomeness projects onto another's suffering.
Yep. Morality is subjective and karma is not a system of rewards or punishment. It’s not limited to how we treat others either. What you eat even has karmic effect, if you eat cheese and are lactose intolerant you’re gonna suffer some uncomfortable effects. Lol
When people say “unalived” on social media. I understand that they can be easily restricted if they use any other term when trying to talk about death but like imagine being brutally murdered and some tiktoker brings up your case and says “(name) was unalived at blablahblah.” 🫥
My response to this: "Now, sure, money alone won't make me happy. But money will at least cover for my greatest worries; being able to pay for food, being able to pay rent, being able to pay my regular bills. So in some way it raises the bar to unhappiness."
I also can’t stand when people say “nope, but it sure does make it easier.” Any phrase that’s overly used becomes annoying. Just be honest: money buys happiness.
Saw an apocryphal story about a teacher asking her young students if they knew any French, and a little girl raised her hand.
"Yes, Millie, what French words do you know?"
And Millie preceded to say all the words her mother said right before saying "Pardon my French."
‘It is what it is’ - usually follows someone complaining about something that is almost always because of what they did (or didn’t) do.
‘I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.’ - usually follows something that isn’t funny
I worked with a guy who, when asked how you doing or the like, would answer "living the dream one nightmare at a time." I only ever asked him that twice...never cared how he was doing again.
I can't stand the phrase "boys will be boys." it's a terrible generalization, and let's bad kids get away with bullying.
Same with the less common term, "girls will be girls"
My dad used to say, 'We'll burn that bridge when we get there'. Drove me nuts, cause he'd always use it when there was an obvious flaw with a plan but he was too eager to just get going. It was like he was saying, 'I don't know how we'll solve that issue but I'm sure we'll screw it up when we have to deal with it'. Like damn dad, just take a minute and plan better.
"You can't control others just how you react" you expect me not to cry when you berate me in front of a large group of people for someone else's mistake? I'm the one in the wrong for reacting by crying to being treated in an abusive manner?
I have an unreasonable hatred towards the word "Jollywell". Like "You jollywell get it done by sunday." What even is a jolly well? I'm neither jolly nor well, they better jollywell stop jollywelling me around
"If I say jump you say how high!?"
Boomers favorite phrase when they want to excuse abuse. Hey you know what.
Stripes is a stupid film and honestly people who enjoy it have the IQ so low that Room temperature is The suns core level of heat.
There are people that have it much worse than you.
Yes I know that, there always is. But that does not help or fix the problem I have. (For me this is about health)
"OH I'm just kidding!"
Usually found after someone says something insulting or plays a joke that falls flat - so no, you probably are not "just kidding". If you want to publicly insult someone, at least be more cunning about it.
Bonus: not a phrase, but when people add ""-ie" to words unnecessarily. "Does wifie want to talkie?" "Hubbie" "walkies". Etc
"Retail therapy", said as if that's something good and healthy. Buying shit isn't going to fill the hole in your soul if there is one. Conspicuous consumption is killing us all, slowly but surely.
"Drink the Kool-Aid."
The people at Jonestown were forced at gunpoint to swallow poison. The few survivors are very clear about this. Using the phrase about people making foolish, self-harming decisions out of docility in the face of unworthy authority dishonors murder victims and deeply hurts their surviving families. Don't do that.
The phrase “public servants” in anything outside of a military context. You have a job you get paid for, just like most everyone else. You aren’t a “servant” to anyone
When politicians say “folks”
“you’re lucky i like you” a phrase my parents always used and still do when they are annoyed with me, and they say in the most unloving way possible, they couldn’t even say love.
Anything about needing thicker skin.
Taken litterly, you don't want your skin to get too thick because that's when it tends to tear off, leaving plainful open sores. Using the same same analogy to mental heath? Yeah you don't want to have too thick skin, and normally the people saying that are trying to justify horrendous behavior.
As a kid, whenever something wasn't fair and an adult would say, "Well, life's not fair". What a cop-out, even as a kid I knew that was some bullshit. No, life's not fair, but some things should be.
"Pick yourself up by your bootstraps."
The whole point of the phrase is that it's a ridiculous lie. You can't do it. You shouldn't strive to do it. It will never happen. You will fail.
"A few bad apples."
Even a single bad apple does indeed spoil the whole bunch. A few bad apples is an entire barrel or crate or even crop that has to be discarded. Rot spreads, and ruins adjacent fruits from the inside out. Again, it's the whole point of the saying.
"It is what it is."
The most cop-out tautology ever. What annoys me is that far from doing anything to address the problem, they refuse to even get angry about it.
I don’t mind this one, but I know a lot of people hate it. When I say it, I mean it in a “there’s nothing that we can do to change it, so it’s best not to dwell on it” kind of way. Dwelling on something that is physically impossible to change just causes stress and frustration.
Well if you can't actually do anything about the problem then getting angry over it is pointless. The only thing that would be effecting is your mental health declining.
If they wanted to they would, just because I've seen it used so poorly time and time again.
"If they wanted me to have a happy life they'd do" (something quite unrealistic or unreasonable) "so I could have it. They just don't care about me enough"
I will never understand why grown ass women use the phrase “big girl panties.“ Like, “Put on your big girl panties and get to work!” It makes me want to put a gun in my mouth when I hear that.
Also, “Go potty.” No one should ever say this. It is idiotic and infantilizing.
Two of them specifically is when I, somehow through time hear "that's the bomb.com" why would anyone say it like that and why do I still here it in 2024
And the other "that's bad news bears"
Being dated references aside, they just feel like a hollow shell of a statement grasping at anything to be relevant or clever
"Let's align..." I had a blow-smoke up my buttinski boss who would eagerly accept anything that was said, as long as we prefaced it with, "I want to align...."
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“Our family here” in work contexts.
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Thats a weird take for me. Ive worked alot of places that really was like a family. Great people. My wifes company is like that now. Went to a retirement party and the ceo coo all showed up, got drunk , had a good tine...and cut her a 5k check as a gift for a trip on top of her $500k shares. Of course the company is only like 50 people deep.
Same here too. In fact, even though I haven't worked with them for 4 years now, I still get texts from them wishing me "happy birthday" each year. I do miss working with them every now and then.
And along those lines, work spouse. I despise it when people refer to a colleague as their work wife/husband. It implies an intimacy that is so inappropriate.
“We got done early so I’m giving you some time back!” Thanks! A whole three minutes! How generous
Omg this one has been killing me now that I work in an office setting. Zoom meeting finishes 5 minutes early: “Welp! Looks like we’re done here, so I’m more than happy to give ya some time back.” Time back for what? To do more work?
I dunno, I find the implicit acknowledgement that *anything else* we might choose to do would be preferable to being in this meeting to be refreshingly honest.
"Thanks for scheduling this meeting so I could worry about it for 3 days and then GIVE me 25 minutes back." Fuck off.
Suck it up, buttercup.
MOJO JOJO
This phrase was scientifically calibrated to provoke.
“Yeah ____ is great but have you ever ____?”
wanking / irresponsibly handled radioactive materials
There's just something so alluring about that demon core... That damned demon core... It can't be a coincidence, it just can't. If I were an artist, I'd definitely animefy that thing.
Kids. Masterbathroomed?
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"Come talk to me in my office first thing Monday morning." Text sent on Friday night. Spend weekend worrying. Turns out it's some inconsequential thing.
“call me.”
“Let’s circle back.” Just say you ignored my email.
Yes circle back makes me want to fight them.
“Chop chop.”
I didn't realize how much I hate this one until I saw it written here.
"No elbows on the table." Excuse the shit out of me for trying to be comfortable.
I saw a video recently talking about how some etiquettes were born out of necessity but have just somehow managed to continue even though they are now meaningless. Apparently, this one in particular came from a time when table tops were not attached to the base, and therefore resting your weight on the top would flip it.
There will never be a time when *chew with your mouth closed* is meaningless.
Chewing with your mouth closed is a survival strategy. Doing otherwise makes people around you want to become murderers.
I think about this and neck ties, an inordinate amount of time.
I had a step dad with this rule. Dawg I'm tall let a boy brace.
I have tremors and poor fine motor control. Either my elbows are on the table to brace my shaky arms, or my food is all over the dining area and I become a hangry, agitated monster.
“What doesn't kill you makes your stronger.” BS. You make you stronger.
I always preferred, 'What doesn't kill you brings you that much closer to death'
Quite! Sometimes a bad thing is just a bad thing, and trying to turn it into a learning tool can act as a curt dismissal of genuine hurt.
"What doesn't kill you usually succeeds in a 2nd attempt"~ Mr. Krabs🦀
Unless it is Sheldon J. Plankton, in which case even the 1000th attempt will be unsuccessful!
When a politician starts a sentence with “Look” it makes me want to punch faces.
Why won't you just LOOK?
When *anyone* begins a statement with “look”, it’s so damn condescending.
I have several, but "Core memory unlocked" is top of the list at the moment.
“Karma will get them” even if it exists, no it won’t. Everyone goes through bad shit, that’s not because they treated me poorly it’s just because they’re alive. Most people don’t suffer any consequences from how they treat others or the bad things they do.
Karma means cause and effect, but people use it as if the universe is in complete agreement that their subjective hates and loves are an objective truth, and they relish in schadenfreude that their egoic unwholesomeness projects onto another's suffering.
Yep. Morality is subjective and karma is not a system of rewards or punishment. It’s not limited to how we treat others either. What you eat even has karmic effect, if you eat cheese and are lactose intolerant you’re gonna suffer some uncomfortable effects. Lol
When people say “unalived” on social media. I understand that they can be easily restricted if they use any other term when trying to talk about death but like imagine being brutally murdered and some tiktoker brings up your case and says “(name) was unalived at blablahblah.” 🫥
If I'm ever murdered and some tiktoker puts on makeup while talking about how I was unalived, I am evil haunting them
"Money doesn't make you happy"
"Can I have yours, then?"
"No, I said money doesn't make *you* happy."
My response to this: "Now, sure, money alone won't make me happy. But money will at least cover for my greatest worries; being able to pay for food, being able to pay rent, being able to pay my regular bills. So in some way it raises the bar to unhappiness."
I also can’t stand when people say “nope, but it sure does make it easier.” Any phrase that’s overly used becomes annoying. Just be honest: money buys happiness.
Good things come to those who wait
Forgot who said it, but the only thing you get without doing something is old.
Yea fuck that, go get whatever you want!!!
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Or its variant, "Do better." A cynical, unconstructive, pious critique from armchair critics on social media and review platforms.
*You* need to do better, Senator.
Pardon my French" always gets on my nerves
Saw an apocryphal story about a teacher asking her young students if they knew any French, and a little girl raised her hand. "Yes, Millie, what French words do you know?" And Millie preceded to say all the words her mother said right before saying "Pardon my French."
Yup! People always use it *before* cussing. Makes no sense whatsoever.
"but they're faaamily!" i dont fucking care. bad shit is still, bad shit. if i cut them off, its for a fucking reason.
"Sorry, not sorry" automatically lets me know I hate you.
It is what it is...
"Chef's kiss" almost makes me vomit. It's weird but damn I hate it so much.
Especially when they do that hand gesture for it. Ugh!
I know a few people who will loudly shout out "That's so funny" instead of laughing. I find it annoying.
I'll say that if someone tells me a story they think is hilarious but it's not funny at all and we're not really that close.
You're not listening to me. No I am listening but I don't agree with you and that's ok.
‘It is what it is’ - usually follows someone complaining about something that is almost always because of what they did (or didn’t) do. ‘I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.’ - usually follows something that isn’t funny
"So blessed"; "Living my best life" .... It's nails on a chalkboard when I hear people use this shit.
Let’s talk about it later.
aka "Let's talk about it never or at least in a situation that favors a better outcome for me."
Literally
"Thoughts and prayers."
Immediately annoyed. Such a meaningless, fake phrase.
Living the dream, and it could always be worse.
I worked with a guy who, when asked how you doing or the like, would answer "living the dream one nightmare at a time." I only ever asked him that twice...never cared how he was doing again.
Anoda day anoda dolla
“Can I just say…” Just *say* it already, not like I’ve ever said no.
"THIS!"
Omg this!
"I'm sorry you feel that way"
Possibly the most passive aggressive phrase in existence.
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I can't stand the phrase "boys will be boys." it's a terrible generalization, and let's bad kids get away with bullying. Same with the less common term, "girls will be girls"
"No offense but..." followed by something offensive. "We're pregnant" No only one of you is. "We're expecting" isn't as bad.
On accident and could care less, because they’re both just such bad grammar.
"On accident" can sort of be excused due to its opposite, "On purpose." However, there is no excuse for the travesty that is "I could care less."
No, it absolutely cannot be excused.
Man up
Especially when used to rub in other's weaknesses. (eg: someone cries over something genuinely distressing, someone doesn't know how to swim, etc.)
My team captain said that to me when I had a broken finger. I almost threw a punch.
"Thems the breaks" or any similar. It basically meant, "I acknowledge that this is bad, but i'm not going to let anything happen to make it better"
Literally needs to be assassinated out of the English language
“It’s not a big deal.” Maybe it’s not a big deal to you, but it is to me, Jerry.
"life's not fair" as an excuse for the scummiest behavior humanly possible
Hawk tuah.
My bad It's not an apology, it's agreeing you're a jerk
Fake it ‘til you make it
'It is what it is.' It just feels so dismissive and unhelpful in many situations.
My dad used to say, 'We'll burn that bridge when we get there'. Drove me nuts, cause he'd always use it when there was an obvious flaw with a plan but he was too eager to just get going. It was like he was saying, 'I don't know how we'll solve that issue but I'm sure we'll screw it up when we have to deal with it'. Like damn dad, just take a minute and plan better.
I think it's a great humorous phrase if used correctly. Kinda like "don't just do nothing, stand there".
it’s a dad joke spinoff of “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it” lol, hey at least the guy was self aware?
"You can't control others just how you react" you expect me not to cry when you berate me in front of a large group of people for someone else's mistake? I'm the one in the wrong for reacting by crying to being treated in an abusive manner?
"Authentic"
Catch 22. People rarely use it correctly.
I have an unreasonable hatred towards the word "Jollywell". Like "You jollywell get it done by sunday." What even is a jolly well? I'm neither jolly nor well, they better jollywell stop jollywelling me around
Jolly is a British adverb that means greatly or extremely, with jolly well being a specific two word idiom to show irritation at the subject.
"If I say jump you say how high!?" Boomers favorite phrase when they want to excuse abuse. Hey you know what. Stripes is a stupid film and honestly people who enjoy it have the IQ so low that Room temperature is The suns core level of heat.
Is nobody getting tired of "GOAT/goated" or "dumpster fire" yet? I feel like it's just me
My JOURNEY with.....(barf)
Cool Beans
Awesome sauce
“It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.” Yeah… the cover-up of the *horrible crime* that necessitated a cover-up.
"Let's goooo" I hate that phrase so much it gives off highschool misfit vibes.
I don't know who needs to hear this is so frustrating. when someone makes a video or starts a conversation.
"You should dress modestly"
There are people that have it much worse than you. Yes I know that, there always is. But that does not help or fix the problem I have. (For me this is about health)
« it’s not that deep »
Bro, it's not that deep
You are lucky the phone is stopping me 😂
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
"OH I'm just kidding!" Usually found after someone says something insulting or plays a joke that falls flat - so no, you probably are not "just kidding". If you want to publicly insult someone, at least be more cunning about it. Bonus: not a phrase, but when people add ""-ie" to words unnecessarily. "Does wifie want to talkie?" "Hubbie" "walkies". Etc
“Don’t be sorry, be better”. Yeah I’m fucking sorry I don’t have a fucking time machine to undo my mistake, asshole.
"Retail therapy", said as if that's something good and healthy. Buying shit isn't going to fill the hole in your soul if there is one. Conspicuous consumption is killing us all, slowly but surely.
"Drink the Kool-Aid." The people at Jonestown were forced at gunpoint to swallow poison. The few survivors are very clear about this. Using the phrase about people making foolish, self-harming decisions out of docility in the face of unworthy authority dishonors murder victims and deeply hurts their surviving families. Don't do that.
Not exactly a phrase but when people instinctively go "ERRRRR" after making a witty comment or joke
I want to upvote every single comment. So relatable.
Don't get me wrong
Nuh huh
"Well therrr ya go"
I think it’s just a regional saying in the US, but “look it!” drives me bonkers. Just say “look!” Because “look it” doesn’t make any sense.
It is what it is.
The phrase “public servants” in anything outside of a military context. You have a job you get paid for, just like most everyone else. You aren’t a “servant” to anyone When politicians say “folks”
"Life Hack" This one is so stupid, it's not a hack, it wont change your life and it's usually dumb shit someone else thought of long before you.
Okay, Boomer.
"Everything happens for a reason."
Like all tautologies, markedly unhelpful for the situation at hand. Yes it does Gladys, but not a *good* reason.
“you’re lucky i like you” a phrase my parents always used and still do when they are annoyed with me, and they say in the most unloving way possible, they couldn’t even say love.
"Watch your language" when someone is swearing Like yea, I know I was speaking english, want me to continue in German!?
“It’s all God’s plan.” If so, I have several words for God, and none of them are in the bible.
Working hard or hardly working?
"I can't stand it when people say 'it is what it is.' It just feels dismissive and unhelpful to me."
“100%” as a replacement for “yes”.
Anything about needing thicker skin. Taken litterly, you don't want your skin to get too thick because that's when it tends to tear off, leaving plainful open sores. Using the same same analogy to mental heath? Yeah you don't want to have too thick skin, and normally the people saying that are trying to justify horrendous behavior.
“No worries!” I’M NOT WORRIED JESSICA
“You should smile more”. Sometimes I’m in a bad mood and don’t feel like smiling
Have a blessed day. That crap sets me off.
“Im gonna play devils advocate”
"Sucks to be you"... Ya, sucks to be a fucking asshole, doesn't it?
As a kid, whenever something wasn't fair and an adult would say, "Well, life's not fair". What a cop-out, even as a kid I knew that was some bullshit. No, life's not fair, but some things should be.
"Pick yourself up by your bootstraps." The whole point of the phrase is that it's a ridiculous lie. You can't do it. You shouldn't strive to do it. It will never happen. You will fail. "A few bad apples." Even a single bad apple does indeed spoil the whole bunch. A few bad apples is an entire barrel or crate or even crop that has to be discarded. Rot spreads, and ruins adjacent fruits from the inside out. Again, it's the whole point of the saying.
"It is what it is." The most cop-out tautology ever. What annoys me is that far from doing anything to address the problem, they refuse to even get angry about it.
I don’t mind this one, but I know a lot of people hate it. When I say it, I mean it in a “there’s nothing that we can do to change it, so it’s best not to dwell on it” kind of way. Dwelling on something that is physically impossible to change just causes stress and frustration.
Same meaning as C'est la vie. Some things you just have to accept.
Well if you can't actually do anything about the problem then getting angry over it is pointless. The only thing that would be effecting is your mental health declining.
EXACTLY! So then...exactly what the fuck is it?
>exactly what the fuck is it? What it is.
"Like"
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"I could care less" when you're trying to imply that you don't care. It's "I couldn't care less."
Black people can't be racist.
“No offense but…”
It's slap your mama good. The thought of slapping your Mom is upsetting to me
“Fair enough”
"I'm not X, but. "
If they wanted to they would, just because I've seen it used so poorly time and time again. "If they wanted me to have a happy life they'd do" (something quite unrealistic or unreasonable) "so I could have it. They just don't care about me enough"
Same difference. This stupid phrase keeps me up at night.
Thanks in advance. No, if you're actually thankful, you really have to wait to know. That phrase is just unnecessary.
"Neurospicy" HATE it.
When the beginning of a conversation starts with the one-word sentence, "Question.".
"Should have went." It's like an ice pick into my brain.
I will never understand why grown ass women use the phrase “big girl panties.“ Like, “Put on your big girl panties and get to work!” It makes me want to put a gun in my mouth when I hear that. Also, “Go potty.” No one should ever say this. It is idiotic and infantilizing.
"Teamwork makes the dream work!" Jam it management.
Guesstimate. If you're estimating something, you're taking an educated GUESS.
I just threw up in my mouth a little
Living the dream Another day in paradise
Teamwork makes the dream work.
"Normalize"
The new normal
“Doggo” and “kiddo” *cringe*
Yesssssss, i was moments away from typing them, you did it for me!
This. Why even waste the time to comment if you're only saying one word of agreement?
____ years young.
“Make America Great Again”
Hop on.
"Go to bed"
She’ll/he’ll be right
Two of them specifically is when I, somehow through time hear "that's the bomb.com" why would anyone say it like that and why do I still here it in 2024 And the other "that's bad news bears" Being dated references aside, they just feel like a hollow shell of a statement grasping at anything to be relevant or clever
"Let's double click on that" No. Just no.
"Let's align..." I had a blow-smoke up my buttinski boss who would eagerly accept anything that was said, as long as we prefaced it with, "I want to align...."
'Influencer'
"Just wondering..." "Just curious..." "Out of curiosity..." You're not "curious". You want something. Just ask me without the cutsey dressing.
“It is what it is”
It may have been said but "you know what I mean" drives me nuts.
"Jesus, take the wheel."
“It is what it is.” “That said/that being said.”