People Are Sharing The Most Annoying Corporate Buzzwords And Phrases, And You've Definitely Heard A Lot Of These

"Circle back, deep dive, hit the ground running. 😂 I could go on and on; they’re all awful."

Business jargon can sometimes help professionals communicate information quickly and concisely, but it can become frustrating and, frankly, annoying when it includes overused words and phrases.

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Reddit user u/Mysterious_Bad_3455 recently asked, "What are the most annoying corporate buzzwords or phrases you’re sick of?" Business peeps out there, take note:

1. "'I just want to circle back to,' 'I am going to challenge that statement,' and 'I agree in principle, but' (which means I don't agree)."

—u/Actual-Leadership413

2. "Optics."

—u/Cpl_Hicks76

3. "'I'll get back to you in the morning,' which means noon the next day."

—u/-Koops

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4. "Synnervation. It's where you promote synergy, and it sparks innovation."

—u/CatchABeatRunnin

5. "'Let's table this, I'll run it up the flagpole, and we can circle back. I think we're running out of bandwidth. Tomorrow we can blue sky some new ideas.'"

—u/DIDO2SPAC

6. "Best Practice. I had a boss that said that on every occasion. I finally had to quit (because it was best practice)."

—u/The68Guns

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7. "'Team' used to mean 'coworkers.' 'Onboarding' used to mean 'new hire orientation.' 'On prem' or 'on premise' used to mean 'on premises.'"

—u/a60v

8. "'This is the new normal.' It started around 2020, and it's still going on. 😒😑"

—u/meggriffin2_0

9. "'We're excited to [...]' No, you're not."

—u/czeslaw12345

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10. "'Talent' to mean either HR or candidates for employment. I got way too many rejection emails from 'Talent Acquisition' for dead-end jobs back in the day that the term still leaves a very bad taste in my mouth, and I refuse to use it."

—u/FunInternational1812

11. "'We are one big family.'"

—u/Consistent-Will-4423

12. "'Collaboration' as an excuse to bring people back in the office."

—u/tkdyo

13. "'I'll give you back [insert amount time].' At my old job, I always found the phrase patronizing, like they knew that the meeting could have been an email I was going to ignore. It didn't help that the time was always 1–2 minutes, so we wouldn't even be able to go to the washroom and back to our workstations quick enough to take the next call."

—u/wert989

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14. "'Let's take this offline.' Why not just say, 'Let's catch up about that outside of this meeting' so you don't sound like a silly fuckwit."

—u/s3venteenDays

15. "Circle back, deep dive, hit the ground running. 😂 I could go on and on. They’re all awful."

—u/MrAwesomeSloth

Do you agree? Disagree? Have others that get on your nerves? Tell me in the comments below.

These entries have been edited for length and clarity.