{"id":2465,"date":"2019-03-27T18:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2019-03-27T18:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:42:21","slug":"dumb-catchphrases-that-corporations-need-to-stop-using","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Catchphrases That Corporations Need To Stop Using"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a list from Cracked.com\u00a0<\/a> of 21 catchphrases that businesses have taken up that are just a waste of words.\u00a0 They got a lot of my pet peeves but here’s a few more that bug the heck out of me:<\/p>\n

“Huddle with your employees”–are we playing football?\u00a0 \u00a0Let’s just MEET with them.<\/p>\n

” I’ll bubble that up to corporate”–why don’t you just say “I’ll tell my superiors.”<\/p>\n

“I’ll reach out to him later”–really?\u00a0 Sounds creepy.\u00a0 You should just CONTACT him later.<\/p>\n

#12 on the list is especially overused where I work, they make “Action Plans” all the time.\u00a0 \u00a0They rarely get done, so I wonder if they were just a “To-Do List” more might get accomplished…<\/p>\n

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Why can’t people at work just talk like, well, people? Instead, because we don’t have enough communication issues in our society as is, we have to make up a whole new vocabulary that we’re required to use at least eight hours a day.<\/p>\n

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Below is a list from Cracked.com\u00a0 of 21 catchphrases that businesses have taken up that are just a waste of words.\u00a0 They got a lot of my pet peeves but here’s a few more that bug the heck out of me: “Huddle with your employees”–are we playing football?\u00a0 \u00a0Let’s just MEET with them. ” I’ll Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies","category-retail-humor","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}