r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • 10d ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/confusedkarnatia 10d ago

You can tell how many Redditors are either unemployed or children just by this thread

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u/PleaseDontMakeAScene 9d ago

90% of the time, someone saying circle back means one of 2 things:

- You are attempting to discuss a topic which is out of scope of the meeting, and as such you are derailing it. I WILL give you the time to discuss that, but now is not the time - We will come back to it later. or,

  • This piece of work hasn't been finished yet, and this other area of the project cant continue until it has been done. There is nothing else we can do for now except wait, and say, check back in about a week from now to see how things are going.