Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

not all back formations are created equal

There is, for example, a subreddit by that name that mostly shares varying degrees of 'fail video' type antics. But I've also heard it used in real life regarding someone who OD'd on heroin.

jesus
that's cruel
why is everyone such an asshole

Like everything else, gammon is now done lads

I've noticed a lot of people using "macguffin" as insta-snark, like it should be immediately understood as a pejorative - kinda don't think Hitchcock was dissing his own films when he started using it?

Just standard hatred of the scotch I'm afraid

maybe they are confusing macguffins with mcmuffins

[location of latest tragedy]Strong

Otm^

I prefer Je Suis

Je Suis Comet Ping-Pong

When did 'work spouse' start, and how do we make it stop?

Work divorce

"Everything happens for a reason."

The use of "around" effectively in substitution for "about" when referring to subjects of popular discourse, as in "conversations around" a topic. Though, to the extent that it may derive mistakenly from the notion of "talking around" a subject rather than really confronting it, it may be ironically accurate much of the time.

Also, the use of "clean" as a culinary term, the personal-objectionability of which has migrated from fake-food and healthy-lifestyle generally-false advertising to usage as a flavor descriptor.

Work divorce

― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, February 26, 2018 1:03 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who gets the kids?

idgaf

Whomsoever travels by air the least maybe

"work wife/husband/spouse" feels of another era, Mad Men style, is this used by anyone that doesn't fly private?

It seems to be one of those phrases that aren't really in actual common use until they get bandied about in a few too many clickbait articles and then people start getting insecure that maybe this hip new lingo has somehow passed them by and they start using it because they mistakenly think other people are using it and by the time you start hearing it come out of the mouths of other human beings the genie is already out of the bottle and all you can do is complain to your work spouse about it.

seems weird that anyone would use it unless they're super sleazy, infidelity is baked into the phrase imo

it's a weird way of defining a relationship to a coworker, because it's pretty unlikely a straight male would refer to another straight male as a work husband even if they have a very marriage-like dynamic

Guys at my last job my supervisor told me that I was expected to be my boss's "work wife" and I lost my shit. It's such an awful phrase/idea.

Heh I think ol's summary has a ring of truth

One lady at my last place said oh we're totally work husband and wife! to me in front of everyone I said iirc lady I just fix printers I got nothing to say about anything else idnr was she devastated or not

was her role to break printers, because... perfect marriage

lmao darragh

You may be mistaking sitcom for perfect

A few years ago, a longtime colleague said I was her "work sibling." I understood what she meant - we'd been at the same company for a decade, often working in parallel on the same projects, but rarely very closely. We didn't share an office or have neighboring cubicles or anything.

Still odd and unnecessary but not as skeezy as "work spouse."

whatever happened to "friend"

Hello darkness, my old work spouse...

i heard you wore a sequined blouse

Work spouse

In the middle of our st

(xp) Like it.

Also, the use of "clean" as a culinary term, the personal-objectionability of which has migrated from fake-food and healthy-lifestyle generally-false advertising to usage as a flavor descriptor.

― Moo Vaughn, Monday, February 26, 2018 4:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, the incorrect use of "healthy" as an adverb, i.e. "eat healthy" rather than healthily.

i think of my gf as my home colleague and the cats as interns

about as useful as a couple interns I've dealt with

lol

I think the work spouse stuff reflects that some or many peoples' needs for social contact and even emotional support extend into the workplace that I'd imagine in America in particular can be a place where many and/or odd hours of the day are spent. This may be rife with potential for trouble or abuse, but it need not be so per se, and I'm not sure that it's an inappropriate part of a job description, terminology perhaps aside. I tend by personality towards the antisocially-introverted with occasional bounded exceptions for those for whom I feel relative comfort/authentic kinship and whose time I feel comfortable claiming, but the failure to engage in such social life, whether hetero or homosocially but especially upward, can have serious professional detriments. To the extent that such contact/support may be demanded more often from women - I don't know whether that's in fact true - it likely reflects sex roles in part, but may also reflect that men are in fact generally worse at same or more uncomfortable seeking same from other men outside the bounds of certain subject-matter deemed gender-appropriate.

Work spousal abuse

Got dark

I think people are constantly in a state of trying to find a model or archetype to describe their social dynamics, whether it's descriptive or prescriptive

we're always halfway between relying on myers-briggs tests or horoscopes and just being like a group of kids deciding who gets to be which power ranger or ninja turtle at recess

i'm less of a donatello these days tbh

the phrase always makes me think of Scottie & Midge in Vertigo

i realise “blockchain” is probably a word but i don’t need to hear/read it 500 times a day

"bio break"

Nope. No need. Just say short break. Ugh.

"facilitate"

xp: that's super gross. never heard it before.

It is, right? I've heard it three times today already. :(

I've never heard bio break? You should just start saying "I'm going to take an ebola break."

Let's take a break. TO PERFORM THE BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF OUR SPECIES.

TBF most people who use bio break don't JUST mean "go to the bathroom." They also mean get some coffee or water or whatever. Basically, attend to the needs of your mammalian self. In some workplaces it still includes smoking!

But still ew. I know we're not gossamer beings of spirit and light and pure thought; you don't need to remind me.

EXACTLY.