ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Corporate Speak" Overused Phrases

Would you consider yourself to be a very corporate individual?

Not at all.

Not at all.

Not at all.

In fact, I don't do well in corporate environments.

I kind of figured that.

People are sharing the annoying words and phrases that they hear way too much at work in a corporate environment.

Oh, I love it.

How about this one?

This is gonna make some people cringe.

Hey, let's focus.

Or dig deeper.

Did you hear that one quite a bit?

I've heard them all.

Uh, let's double click on that.

Uh, the new one that seems to happen and I circle back.

Oh, that's, uh, let's put a pin in that one and let's circle back to that one.

That's, that means that they're not going to talk about what you want to talk about.

Pivot or flexibility.

That seemed to be a huge one in the COVID era.

So we have to pivot now.

I can see the disdain in your face.

It's cliche corporate.

BS,

you know, so you're not saying that you would use the word touch base Well touch base in the morning No, actually this woman here.

She said it sounds gross, but then some people say touch bases which sounds even worse Awesome sauce have you heard that one?

I have heard awesome from a bro who's sitting in front of you know, this is great You've done a very good job awesome sauce

Maggie Dugan

Good ol' Maggie Duggan, our Promotions Director at WAF in Boston, used to say, and she said it a lot, objections melt in the presence of a hot idea.

What is that?

I don't know.

Did she say it a lot?

A lot.

I guess if you have it on a t-shirt.

Yeah,

I know.

How about this one?

This is one that used to drive me nuts.

I had a supervisor at one time who used to say this all the time.

Let's take a deep dive into that.

I like deep dive.

Yeah, I like that.

No, I do.

Please.

I do.

Because sometimes you need to take a deep dive.

People skim the surface and don't think deep into things.

And I like to stop and say, let's think about that a little bit.

I like that you

can say, let's think about that.

Let's, you know, using

the phrase

deep dive, the phrase deep dive, you know, the new normal.

No.

Uh, one in the Zoom era.

Um, excuse me.

Uh, I think you're on mute.

Or excuse me, put your pants on.

What?

How often are you saying that

on Zoom?

Oh,

careful of that manager's meeting that's coming up.