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"To be honest" or..... "I have to be honest with you".....
Drives me nuts.
laughing insanely--so you have met my 'friend', Cindy? She always said that---a real back stabber, rotten apple, big baby--caused so many problems for the 'more mature' staff members, who really KNEW her.
May she rot in wherever she is--dead now and I think that is for the best.
There is a picture in her honor/memoriam in my school--that was ruined when she was transferred there--thought to be a Master Teacher--'The Best Teacher Ever' by a principal--she gossiped with him about others on the staff--friend of my principal who then did the same with the Wonderful Gift to Teaching. I sat him down and told him the truth--the look of betrayal and hurt in his eyes was painful. Fortunately she didn't ruin his career--that he had worked so hard to build--was finally recognized for his hard work and did much more good for children as an Area Coordinator---Semper Fi, JL. Still your friend---such men are very rare--that lead with courage, conviction and compassion.
What is more irritating than corporate-speak carefully crafted to lie?
"This is a courtesy call, to let you know that you can now buy..." You mendacious excrescence. This is not a courtesy call. This is a sales call.
"In order to better serve you, we have adjusted our fee structure and made personnel adjustments." What you are saying is that you have adjusted all the fees up and all the personnel coverage downward. I can't wait to see how much better that serves me.
"We offer competitive salary and benefits..." Not everyone does. But everyone says that. Some of you are liars.
"The last four of your soash..." So now you can't even fully articulate it as 'Social Security Number.' There's no security in this quasi-password. Oh gods, how I wish I were wealthy enough to just tell everyone who asks for this to go to hell.
"You mean your payoff balance?" (Blurted by a bank employee every month when I phone in and ask, clearly, for my principal loan balance.) No, you imbecile. Had I wanted a payoff balance I would not have used the term 'principal balance'. If you do not know the difference between those terms, quit your job today.
"Your subscription to Pez Weekly will expire very soon! Time is running out!" In other words, it'll be up in about eight months. I just subscribed four months ago.
"This is the BEST OFFER you will receive!" Translation: "You will receive this same offer every month for the next four months. Big deal. Take your time."
"I will be happy to provide you with excellent service in answer to that question, sir. Would you mind holding the line just one moment? It will only take a second, sir." Do you really need to say all that [term for solid waste matter]? How about "I'll find out, sir. Please hang on, be right back." You sound like answering my question is giving you wood. Just do it.
I hate 'em. And the worst part is that in the case of the spoken ones, it's usually some minimum wage sufferer saying exactly what s/he has been ordered to say.
What is more irritating than corporate-speak carefully crafted to lie?
"This is a courtesy call, to let you know that you can now buy..." You mendacious excrescence. This is not a courtesy call. This is a sales call.
"In order to better serve you, we have adjusted our fee structure and made personnel adjustments." What you are saying is that you have adjusted all the fees up and all the personnel coverage downward. I can't wait to see how much better that serves me.
"We offer competitive salary and benefits..." Not everyone does. But everyone says that. Some of you are liars.
"The last four of your soash..." So now you can't even fully articulate it as 'Social Security Number.' There's no security in this quasi-password. Oh gods, how I wish I were wealthy enough to just tell everyone who asks for this to go to hell.
"You mean your payoff balance?" (Blurted by a bank employee every month when I phone in and ask, clearly, for my principal loan balance.) No, you imbecile. Had I wanted a payoff balance I would not have used the term 'principal balance'. If you do not know the difference between those terms, quit your job today.
"Your subscription to Pez Weekly will expire very soon! Time is running out!" In other words, it'll be up in about eight months. I just subscribed four months ago.
"This is the BEST OFFER you will receive!" Translation: "You will receive this same offer every month for the next four months. Big deal. Take your time."
"I will be happy to provide you with excellent service in answer to that question, sir. Would you mind holding the line just one moment? It will only take a second, sir." Do you really need to say all that [term for solid waste matter]? How about "I'll find out, sir. Please hang on, be right back." You sound like answering my question is giving you wood. Just do it.
I hate 'em. And the worst part is that in the case of the spoken ones, it's usually some minimum wage sufferer saying exactly what s/he has been ordered to say.
They have a script. And then there are further scripts depending upon what your response was.
I had a brief part-time career as the person who calls to try to get you to renew a lapsed magazine subscription.
Ok, I'm probably weird here, but is anyone else bothered by the phrase " to go missing" or "She went missing." I just never heard that till a few years ago. It seems more correct to me to say something like "She was missing since Friday..." or "She is missing..." not "went." Now I hear it everywhere including the local news. Is this proper grammar?
I just came across the above from July.
When did this start being OK to say? I used to hear people from other parts of the country say "gone missing" or "went missing" on TV shows like Most Wanted and thought it an amusing regional thing, but now I hear newscasters say it and my own daughter says things have "gone missing" and thinks this is normal.
The word awesome said repeatedly.Awesome should only be a word used to describe GOD.And the phrase No worries....what exactly is that supposed to mean?
The word awesome said repeatedly.Awesome should only be a word used to describe GOD.And the phrase No worries....what exactly is that supposed to mean?
It means somebody liked Crocodile Dundee and picked up the Australian phrase.
Don't know where you got the idea that awesome should only be used to describe God. It means full of awe or awe-inspiring. "Awful" used to mean the same thing.
Whenever some car manufacturer has to do something about emptying out the lot, you see commercials heralding a "sales event." Personally, I think that whoever came up with the phrase should be shot without benefit of a trial.
Newsflash: a sale is an event. You do not get bonus points for redundancy.
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but is anyone else bothered by the phrase " to go missing" or "She went missing." 
I just never heard that till a few years ago. It seems more correct to me to say something like "She was missing since Friday..." or "She is missing..." not "went." Now I hear it everywhere including the local news. Is this proper grammar?
