By Steve Moran
Preply, a platform that connects people who need tutors with people who offer tutoring, recently surveyed a thousand people about workplace buzzwords. Here are some of the highlights:
- Emails are the place people most often encounter buzzwords.
- Here are the ones used most often:
- The most annoying …
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- Circle back
- Work hard, play hard
- Boots on the ground
- Let’s table this
- Synergy
- Put a pin in it
- Get ducks in a row
- Low-hanging fruit
- Reinvent the wheel
- Throw it up and see what sticks
- The least annoying …
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- Sync
- Pushback
- Pipeline
- Level set
- Have in back pocket
- Window of opportunity
- Loop in
- Align
- Take offline
- On the same page
- The most and least annoying on job postings — this one is important:
- Gen Z buzzwords — most of which I don’t know the meaning to … ☹️:
But it got me to thinking … what are the most used and most annoying terms/words we use in senior living?