What phrases do you hate but use anyway?

[Smunder Woman]

Transcribing an interview has made me realise how annoying I am when I speak. I generally hate people saying "like" and "kind of" and it turns out I do both constantly, along with "basically".

I can't be the only one who does this, can I?

[Princess Morripov]

I say "like" all the time, like.

Also, A pointed out a few years ago I use "obviously" a lot so I'm super paranoid about that, obviously.

[Livilla]

All the stupid work buzzwords. I use them all the time, because people around me do too. And die a little inside every time...

(I honestly said the other day that I had no "bandwidth" to take on a task for example - because I knew the audience would "get" that concept without further discussion, but ugh ugh ugh. :shame: )

[Mrs Danvers]

All the stupid work buzzwords. I use them all the time, because people around me do too. And die a little inside every time...

Me too and I also hate myself. I using 'going forward' all the time and also 'next steps'

In normal life I swear far too much and I only really notice when I am with people who don't do it that much, or at all. My colleague never, ever swears so I rarely use bad language at work now which is good. Not that I did loads before but my previous assistant was fond of a profanity or two so we used to have a good old sweary chat on occasion.

[Blue Eyed Laydee]

I work for a large American company so I use every business buzzword you could think of.

I am also superfluously sweary. Conversely, I sometimes indicate affirmation by chirping 'Okeydokes!'

[Livilla]

Someone I used to work with used to say "Alrighty!" to indicate assent, which was bizarre, as he was really not generally chirpy. It amused me every time.

[H1ppychick]

You are me, BEL, apart from the company I'm contracting at not being American. They do have their own internal shitspeak though. They have a 'Big K.oru' for best practice stuff and roll-outs, and it's all Agile-ing and Scrum-ming everywhere you look.

[smalex]

I say 'obviously' all the time. I hate myself a bit every time I say it.

[Tsu]

(I honestly said the other day that I had no "bandwidth" to take on a task for example - because I knew the audience would "get" that concept without further discussion, but ugh ugh ugh. :shame: )

That would be having (or not having) "spare cycles" in our place.

[Brier]

I say basically a lot too. I also say "shine a light" instead of shit now, and not just around the children - I don't know where it's come from and I wish it would go back there, I feel like a right idiot every time it leaves my mouth.

[bramblerose]

In normal life I swear far too much and I only really notice when I am with people who don't do it that much, or at all.

I do this, drop a fuck or a twat into a conversation then realise that I don't actually know my audience :shame:

I sometimes use buzzwords at work as well which I hate.

[Luna]

I swear far too much. My husband is exceedingly sweary which doesn't help.

[Luna]

I shout out 'tits!' a lot when things go wrong. :shame:

[Ella77]

My American colleagues are a bit more sensitive to swearing than the rest of us, so I've developed a tendency to say "Ah, shoot" instead of shit .

[Luna]

My supervisor who I sit next to hates swearing and rude jokes and any risque talk. When she is on holiday it's like we all have tourettes and swear non-stop.

[Jet]

I'm was quite pleased when my boss started swearing in front of me, it makes me feel more at home

I've started saying an enthusiastic 'Right!' as an affirmative and I don't know why and it annoys me every time.

[sally maclennane]

J pointed out that I say "Well!..." when asked a question

I resist business speak as much as possible. I hate it.

[Mrs Danvers]

I'm glad it's not just me with the swearing

[sally maclennane]

Oh I swear loads but I don't worry about it particularly

[Smunder Woman]

I swear loads too, but also don't care