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Disclaimer... Yes, there are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more important things to expend energy on but forgive me, I just have to get this off my chest.
I just finished the work day... another day of meetings with people seemingly trying to impress... themselves?....others?...with their intellectual prowess . I'm about 50 years old and have been around long enough to remember that certain words and/or phrases...perfectly acceptable at first...take on a life of their own and suddenly end up being injected into professional presentations and conversation to the point where once interesting and unique words and phrases are just nauseating.
In the past, these have included phrases like: "...at the end of the day".
The word that makes cringe now? "Robust". Great word...when it first starting popping up in meetings 5 years ago, it was even inspired, refreshing and illustrative. Now, when I hear it used it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Which words and phrases make you want to jam uncooked linguini into your eyeballs?
"It is what it is" This is annoying-my ex-boss said it all the time...this means you won't or can't change anything...you should always want to make your business better-
TXStrat I agree.. "reach out to"...technically I'm not reaching anywhere...I'm calling or meeting-annoying-
The fewer meetings you go to---the better off you are..
The definition of hell: stuck in an airport lobby/bar sitting next to some d-bag talking loudly on his cell phone while discussing his company's "marketing strategy"...
I've always been opposed to most words said in a meeting. From the initial, "Let's get started, shall we?" (I want to stand up and say, "Let's not, shall we?") to the final, "We'll touch base on this again."
Meetings are so unproductive in time wasted on minutiae that could just as easily be handled in a general e-mail memo. The people who loved to speak at meetings were people who didn't have enough to do, and those of us who were forced to listen to their blather were envisioning the steadily-growing pile in our in-baskets.
My very unfavorite phrase in a meeting - "We're all going to have to pull up our socks, bite the bullet, and make this company viable again." ("I don't know what you've [The Speaker] been doing, but I've been working my a$$ off here. In terms of viability, you're the liability.")
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Not only in meetings but often in sports/celebrity interviews on TV I'm getting really tire of hearing people begin a sentence with "I mean"
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. I'm about 50 years old and have been around long enough to remember that certain words and/or phrases...perfectly acceptable at first...take on a life of their own and suddenly end up being injected into professional presentations and conversation to the point where once interesting and unique words and phrases are just nauseating. 
