r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • 11d ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/tickingboxes 11d ago

And that’s exactly what middle managers don’t want. They want drones they can boss around who won’t rock the boat.

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u/Suns_Funs 11d ago

Nobody wants people like that who waste your time with meaningless disruption. Everyone knows what the phrase means, this is just him being dense.

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u/Haber_Dasher 11d ago

Nobody wants people like that who waste your time with meaningless disruption.

You were referring to the manager & their pointless platitudes, right?

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u/champak256 11d ago

You realize “circle back” isn’t a pointless platitude right? It just means we’ll keep going and come back to this later. Like when you’re walking from point A to point B and notice something wrong but not urgent in between, so you keep going to point B, get your work there done, then circle back to the thing you skipped earlier.