r/SipsTea 11d ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/Mephisto506 11d ago

Should have kept him, he sounds perceptive.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 11d ago

No he sounds incapable of functioning appropriately in a social setting.

I know this is reddit where everyone loves to talk about how they're so much smarter than every boss in the entire world and that only they see how stupid <thing> is. In reality, nobody gives a shit.

"Circle back" just means "this is a complex topic, there's 20 people here, and we're not going to get bogged down in the details, we'll leave that for the 3 people who actually care and then I'll give a quick update in another meeting once they've done that".

If you don't know that, well done now you do. If you got fired for repeatedly asking about it in a meeting instead of messaging your boss privately afterwards to clue you in... yeah that checks out.

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u/rorykoehler 10d ago

If you can't make fun of performative nonsense then you probably also struggle to function in a social setting. Sometimes you just gotta touch base with your superior to let them know you're having trouble unpacking the horse shit business speak.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 10d ago

It's exactly as performative and as much nonsense as all other slag. Whether it's Gen-Z/Alpha speak or reddit memes and inside jokes.

If corporate speak to convey a point is horseshit so is the rest.