Upskill. I'm not 'upskilling' someone, I'm training them.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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Iβm allergic to corpospeak in general.
I unreasonably hate the word "moreover". I see no reason why you wouldn't use the words "also", "additionally", or even "furthermore" that sound way better when read.
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When people say 'like' constantly between sentences or sentence fragments or before every adjective.
And (they) still can't understand similes.
i know i'm being a 
but i despise the term 'taxpayer funds'/'taxpayer money'. besides being completely wrong in nearly all cases, it places taxes above the people, above labor.
'American taxpayer is paying for the genocide in Gaza'. No, every person/entity using U.S. Dollars is paying for it. Even foreign countries are indirectly paying for it.
If someone uses the word 'curate' they'd better be preparing to show me a shoebox filled with their favorite vaseline glass and not a pile of random deli meat on a wooden board
Lemme get that shark cootchie board of curated meats
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im still a bit salty about 'literally'
also the constant failure to say 'i could not care less' correctly
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The corporate overenthusiasm "LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO".
Ugh. Sure, maybe the product launch went great, but still. Ugh.
Can we just mean corporate speak in general. I canβt fucking stand all the buzzwords that get tossed around
Any corporation or even companies social media account being memey is annoying.
I work as a barista and get much too annoyed by people ordering a "regular coffee".
Like I know that 99.999% of the time they mean a drip/filter coffee (excluding that one lady that one time who was surprised I didn't parse "regular coffee" as a latte), but like can you just say drip coffee? Or even simply "coffee"!
I honestly don't even know why it annoys me this much.
I'm a waitress and "regular coffee" means different things across regions. Some people mean just "drip, not decaf" with no indication of cream or sugar. Some people mean "drip, black" with no indication of caffeine content. And where I grew up, "regular" means "2 cream 2 sugar", as in you'd be asked if you wanted your coffee "regular or black". It's the worst.
That latte lady was just crazy though... unless she meant "my regular"?
Ah, the four basic types of coffee, Regular, Posh, Italian and Wrong.
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"I'm just sayin'" ok but you're still an asshole.
"Know what I'm sayin'?"
"Not really. Do you know what you're saying?"
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βNot meβ doing something.
Just say youβre doing something, and accept that it may be a bit hypocritical or shameful that youβre doing it.
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Places using "gluten-friendly" to mean "gluten-free". I am gluten-UNfriendly. I do not want gluten. They've tried to be cute and actually managed to make the term mean the opposite of what it's supposed to.
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People ending sentences with βrnβ.
I'm literally doing that rn
I had a young coworker who reported to me and a few others, for a few months earlier this year. She would come in and say βthat being said,β¦β all the fucking time. I heard it at least once or twice per brief conversation with her. I think she was just trying to sound smartβ¦ but, it was like nails on a chalk board to me.
βTo be fairβ¦β
Ironically, the phrase "rustles my jimmies" really burns my biscuits.
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People thinking their clever by making up words that already have a meaning.
"Lawfare" meaning chargingnrich white assholes for the crime they committed
"Disinformatsiya" or however libs spelled it to mean pointing out the hypocrisy of American nationalists.
"Sanewashing" to describe media putting their thumb on the scale for the fascist who wants to cut their taxes.
It implies it's a new phenomenon and not just the current version of whatever propoganda apparatus has been chugging along for decades.
Liberals complain about "sanewashsing" and then in the same breath talk about how cheyney and bush weren't exactly the fucking same as Trump.
Property, when referring to a house/home.