{"id":76234,"date":"2014-12-22T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=76234"},"modified":"2014-12-19T21:55:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T19:55:25","slug":"most-annoying-work-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/76234\/most-annoying-work-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Most annoying work phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best-selling author and strategist, Bernard Marr, has provided a list of\u00a0 phrases most likely to make you want to scream when you hear them come out the mouths of your work colleagues.<\/p>\n

“I reckon every office or workplace has one of those people that are just full of jargon-ridden management drivel,”\u00a0Marr said.<\/p>\n

Are you surrounded by people who annoyingly can’t get enough of the management gobbledygook and who utter one jargon buzzword after another?<\/p>\n

Are your meetings buzzing with so much management lingo that you find it hard to get to the real meaning of what is being said?<\/p>\n

“The problem I have with these phrases is that they sound so pretentious and often are counter-productive because they irritate people so much and deflect from the real meaning.”<\/p>\n

These are\u00a0Marr’s top 30 most irritating jargon phrases used at work:<\/p>\n

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  1. Going forward<\/li>\n
  2. Drill-down<\/li>\n
  3. End of play<\/li>\n
  4. Touch base<\/li>\n
  5. It’s on my radar<\/li>\n
  6. No brainer<\/li>\n
  7. Best of breed<\/li>\n
  8. Low hanging fruit<\/li>\n
  9. Reach out<\/li>\n
  10. Dive deeper<\/li>\n
  11. Think outside the box<\/li>\n
  12. Positive momentum<\/li>\n
  13. On my plate<\/li>\n
  14. At the end of the day<\/li>\n
  15. Run the numbers<\/li>\n
  16. Touch points<\/li>\n
  17. Keep your eye on the ball<\/li>\n
  18. Back to the drawing board<\/li>\n
  19. Get the ball rolling<\/li>\n
  20. Bang for your buck<\/li>\n
  21. Close the deal<\/li>\n
  22. When the rubber hits the road<\/li>\n
  23. Shift paradigm<\/li>\n
  24. Move the needle<\/li>\n
  25. Game-changing<\/li>\n
  26. Move the goal post<\/li>\n
  27. Value added<\/li>\n
  28. Win-win<\/li>\n
  29. Across the piece<\/li>\n
  30. All hands on deck<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Best-selling author, and strategist, Bernard Marr, has provided a list of the most annoying workplace phrases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-76234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76418,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76234\/revisions\/76418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}