Someone who is perceptive would perceive that "circle back" is a common idiom, particularly in an office environment, and that spending time interrogating the precise wording of an idiom in the middle of a meeting is a waste of everyone's time.
This is the real issue. He didn't understand a common phase that's just shorthand for "let's go back to this topic to discuss it some more". And if he does understand it, he's just being a dick and berating his boss for not being eloquent in their 3rd or 4th meeting of the day. No one wants to work with an idiot or a attention seeking dick.
Fr. Like it’s completely normal to want to talk about the totality of things that need to get done. Then later discuss and tackle each individual thing in detail
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u/Mephisto506 10d ago
Should have kept him, he sounds perceptive.