Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

My default after in many cases almost twenty years of interacting with y'all here is to trust a poster's sincerity and not to think the poster is classist, racist, or operating on bad faith.

I think the binary being set up there doesn't quite work, though I agree boiling it down to "I don't like these words in this order" is a little absurd. A word or series of words cannot be objectively annoying; the context, including but not exclusively who's speaking, is clearly vital even if it's not necessarily strictly personal.

imo there's something key missing from this discussion: emotional labour. Including: the emotional labour that service workers must do, the culturally reinforced language used to do that labour, the language workers are explicitly trained to use for emotional labour by an employer, resentment over the perceived insincerity or superfluity of emotional labour on the consumers' part, + resentment over the social expectation that one participate in (possibly) rote or false rituals of hospitality, and the draining and psychologically harmful effects of doing emotional labour.

I use a lot of these “annoying” words at my job, they are honestly helpful in describing things. Like “ask”. So yeah I guess I feel like I’m being told not to use these words because I’m being a dork or something?

The words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of people in this thread tend to be ones that imply some unpleasant pretentiousness on the part of the speaker, as in, they should have just used a plain old word rather than spice things up. Pretentious.

I have used it too because it's the common office language now and it's just what people do. It doesn't make you a dork at all and I don't think anyone is saying not to use them. I hate all the corporate phrases but I'm sure I've used most of them at one point or another. I've just always read those kinds of posts as light heartedly making fun of corporate jargon.

i too have used the very jargon i complain about

i never have

amd i never hope to going forward

I think a bit of the tension is related to performativity and roles. Like, I think the criticism, if it goes further than the words, the furthest it hits is the role of servant, as opposed to the actual people performing the role.

As someone who performs the servant role, I can possibly feel like the criticism also hits me, like if I perhaps played my role better, I wouldn’t be treated with revulsion like a candidate for 3rd worst actor?

Idk I am kinda high on cold medicine rn?

I have an ask: let's be more awesomesauce.

Cool beans!

Let's workshop that a little.

Can I popcorn with awesomesauce? Do I dare?

lol I can't load the whole thread on my phone because it's so long but I'm almost certain I posted cool beans in here many years ago.

Oh wait I just thought of a good office one that I haven't heard in ages. Massage the documents.

Is massage the documents like “massage the numbers”?

I once heard a Georgia judge talking about "massaging the rule."

_I wasn’t talking to you, sarahell, but I also distinctly remember helping you fold chairs and clean up on numerous occasions, so maybe pick on someone else

this boomerish lady says “aces” when things are going well, like “aces, hon”

Lady I work with sometimes

what... happened here >_>

Mystery ghost

__I wasn’t talking to you, sarahell, but I also distinctly remember helping you fold chairs and clean up on numerous occasions, so maybe pick on someone else_


Were you there for the reading where someone bought a bottle of HypnotiQ from the telegraph liquor store and spilled some of it… and it was disturbingly effective at lightening the oil stains on the concrete floor?

there this neighbourhood lady i've always heard about, always in tones of like, "she's amazing", she has three kids and was once a professional opera singer but gave that up to be a full-time mom. she is always organizing yard sales and park clean-ups and during lockdown she created a recipe booklet solicited from neighbourhood people, on their favourite comfort dishes to make. she IS amazing so of course instinctively i kind of hate her. her husband is also an opera singer, has not given up his job, and in fact flies all over the world to sing, and teach, and attend, like.. symposia i guess? anyway somehow i never actually met her until the other day, i was feeling bleary, had struggled through a few meetings, and the lovely Emma B told me she was coming over briefly with her kids. i hear them hacking around downstairs and once my meeting finishes i decide it would be churlish not to at least say hello to the amazing neighbour, so i go downstairs and dote on the kids a little and i see she's wearing a hoodie that says something like "JUST CHOOSE OPERA" and i'm like, great top, you sing, right? and she says no, not anymore, and we talk a little about that, and then she mentions her husband, and i'm like oh, he travels, why, for gigs? and she says yes, for gigs, concerts, teaching, all of that.. she searches for the word..

shizzle

As effective as TSP! … but more expensive

"it has come to our attention..." no need to finish i'll just go kill myself thanks

I thought eat/ate/ate and left no crumbs came from ballroom culture, maybe popularized and mainstream by Rupaul's Drag Race.

I'm not sure the literal origin of it within ballroom (or if this is even correct) except maybe "eat up the runway," which I've heard Dashaun Wesley say. Which maybe became "eat the competition' or just "eat it" or "ate."

And so I am picturing HypnotiQ eating ... the stains off the floor.

My default after in many cases almost twenty years of interacting with y'all here is to trust a poster's sincerity and not to think the poster is classist, racist, or operating on bad faith.

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Bring cool beans back imo.

ha, prev ignorance— as the somewhat self-aware abe simpson of the thread (and yo— hope you get there)— as to why my awesome queer kid uses “eats” as she does is somewhat more informed. that’s mosta what i got, and if you don’t come to this thread ready to be abe simpson, u a fuckin fool be gone.

"I think starting from a starting by asking "why do you all hate service workers?" rather than merely asking "hey uh, what's wrong with these sayings? they're innocuous and btw, things I have to say daily" is what kind of enflamed things. I'm sure that'll be called 'tone policing', but I just don't see why the least charitable interpretation is often the one gravitated to the fastest here."

Some of the ppl that do this stuff feel differently. I've seen people doing service jobs being treated badly or looked at with contempt. This kind of thing just adds to the atmosphere. I'd rather not say anything about it.

Similarly, seen people on the Web complain about interactions with call centre ppl, just being disrespectful and doing performative anger when the shitty service they are paying a shit wage to manage isn't their fault.

What I was trying to get at was … the majority of us have been service workers treated badly and contemptuously. … the only person who seemed to “hate” service workers was the dude Omar went to get pizza with in a post from two days ago?

Maybe omar can help him to sign up si we can finally have our sacrificial lamb

My most deranged Instagram friend returned from social media hiatus and just posted a story ranting about a dude on a work call using the phrase “massage it out” several times when discussing their strategic plan.

sorry for fanning any flames, I had to clean up a bunch of dog shit and piss today and wasn’t in a great mood

there’s a guy i work with who when he wants to talk about really getting into the heart of a problem and coming up with a solution he says we need to “nut it out” and i almost spit out my tea every time he does

well

its either that or swallow

I got fired from an ad agency admin job once because I had strong objections to one of the directors saying ‘okay, it’s cocks-on-blocks time’ whenever a big decision loomed.

Eeuurrghh

Obviously this was the point at which I had a feminist book out and was going to sit on panels discussing feminism and culture, the directors of this part time job knew that, and were still flabbergasted that anyone working for them might have reasons to object to their language. Bunch of zero fucks given boarding-school trash.

I can't with the nut it out. Omg

Someone said they would just rub it out the other day obv talking about wearing something and I still giggled.

To myself.

The interim CEO where I work uses the phrase “many ways to skin a cat” and it did not go over well. He already kinda sucks.

used not uses

I got fired from an ad agency admin job once because I had strong objections to one of the directors saying ‘okay, it’s cocks-on-blocks time’ whenever a big decision loomed.

lol, someone working in advertising once told me about a senior figure at their work who would constantly say things like 'I like it, but does it get me HARD?' Ad men still out here living their lives like a one-note Fast Show sketch.

holy shit

what a thread for ilxor comebacks

altho tbf

fast show concept was actually one note sketch characters

CEOs, execs, well paid ppl churning out that bollocks = laugh away

Lower paid people doing it = show some awareness.

I dare say that all of us have had lower paying jobs in our lives, if not now.

Speak for yourself I make eight figures