Are These The Most Pretentious, Irritating, Annoying, and Overused Phrases At Work?

Well I’m just as guilty as the next person, yet at the same time, below are my top most annoying, overused, and pretentious jargon phrases we hear at work settings today. Do you agree? Please let me know which ones you would add to this list!

Call it what you will, Buzz words, officespeak, Overused lingo, Biz-speak!

“Jargon masks real meaning,” says Jennifer A. Chatman, the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management with the California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. “People use it as a substitute for thinking hard and clearly about their goals and the direction that they want to give others.”

For me, these are my top most pretentious, annoying, and irritating jargon phrases used at work:

1. Across the piece
2. All hands on deck
3. At the end of the day
4. Back to the drawing board
5. Bang for your buck
6. Best of breed
7. Best practice
8. Chinese firewall
9. Circle Back
10. Close the deal
11. Cutting Edge
12. Disconnect
13. Dive deeper
14. Drill-down
15. End of play
16. Game-changing
17. Get the ball rolling
18. Going forward
19. Hold the fort
20. I don’t have a problem with that
21. It Is What It Is
22. It’s on my radar
23. Keep your eye on the ball
24. key drivers
25. key insights
26. key takeaways
27. Leverage
28. Low hanging fruit
29. Move the goal post
30. Move the needle
31. No brainer
32. Not in my wheelhouse
33. On my plate
34. Paradigm shift
35. Positive momentum
36. Reach out
37. Run the numbers
38. Shoot me an email
39. synergies/synergistic
40. Think outside the box
41. Touch base
42. Touch points
43. Value added
44. Viral
45. When the rubber hits the road
46. Win-win

You know what’s funny though? Occasionally, there’s a new one – overused work clichés! (Comment if you have one i  missed.)