This Twitter thread will make anyone who's ever sat in a work meeting cringe so hard
"Let's take a step back."
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Here are some people at a work meeting, most likely talking about synergy.
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Whenever you spend a lot of time in a confined space with a group of people, it's not uncommon for a new language to develop.
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Slang. Shorthand. Odd sayings. It happens all the time. Normally it's fine.
Not in offices, though.
In the workplace -- particularly in meetings -- this kind of thing happens far, far too much.
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Comedian Adam Hess recently opened a can of worms when he made just such an observation.
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Soon, Hess' mentions were packed to the brim with people highlighting other, similarly meaningless phrases they'd heard wheeled out in the workplace.
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Nope. Nope. Nope.
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We need to put all these sayings in the bin, asap.
Our synergy depends on it.
