People Share Which Words They Just Can't Stand Hearing
There are just somethings one cannot abide by in civilized society. One of the most egregious issues is lazy speech. There are just some euphemisms and sayings that fall out of people's mouthes that make you just want to set them on fire or at the very least set oneself on fire.
Redditor babriko wanted to compile a list of what should be language's biggest issue by asking... Whats a word or phrase that people use that you can't stand? T_ake note people! These are important life lessons.
MAGIC ISN'T REAL... ESPECIALLY IN SYLLABLES.
I'm a teacher. Our professional development policies seem to center around a magic buzzword that changes every few years. I hate them all.
TEACHERS HAD A FEW THOUGHTS...
I'm in education and my school loves to throw around bull phrases like "brave leader" or "courageous conversations."
Latest in my district is teaching the curriculum with fidelity. So much fidelity.
IS THAT EVEN ENGLISH?
Leveraging cloud infrastructure to maximize synergistic overflow in innovative rapid-deployment solutions.
I hate myself.
BINGO!!
Someone won buzzword bingo off a single phrase in a meeting a long time ago-
"Increased Layers of Service Escalation"
Legend.
JUST KEEP IT SIMPLE...
Oh my god, yes.
Differentiation
Collaboration
Depth of knowledge
Equity of voice
Scaffolding
Gradual release
Student agency
Growth mindset
Even graphic organizers... aren't they really just charts?
THAT'S NOT EVEN A THOUGHT!
"You need more synergy in your cohesion to make sure the young adults can pass their controlled assessments." Something like that?
SOUND IT OUT...
I work in auto parts. A phrase i can't absolutely stand:
"I need a cadillac converter"
it kills me a little each time i hear it. It's Catalytic. CATALYTIC.
IT'S A DELICACY...
Whenever people call the dirt that accumulates between their toes "cheese." It's the grossest thing ever. I don't know if it's used in English but I have heard people use it in Dutch often.
SHOULD WE SAY STOP?
When people ask for feedback and say "GO!" Absolutely never respond and makes my skin crawl.
THOUGHTS?
Needs to seat 20! NEXT!
Hey, read my 50,000 word NaNoWriMo novel and give me feedback. Aaaaaand ... GO!
DON'T BE A HYPOCHONDRIAC!
"I'm dying, literally!"
RESPONSE?
I mean, we all are.
in an existential sense, this is always true for living creatures.
ODDS ARE NOT GOOD IN YOUR FAVOR...
After years of reading story/book/fiction summaries, I've grown to hate the phrase 'got more than he/she bargained for.'
Why the heck even have a flipping summary if that's all you're going to say! Yeah no crap genius - the entire plot revolves around something unexpected/unplanned happening to the protagonist! Congratulations, you've written a summary that's so bland and boring that it's exactly the same as millions of other summaries written in history, and that's supposed to catch the reader's attention?
Give me a spicy little plot nibble to pull me in, god damn it, not some uninspired, lazy half-effort!
YOU AND YOUR FAKE NEWS...
"I'm allowed to have my opinion" during an argument about factual things that anyone can look up and see. Drives me insane. You can have an opinion on abortion or legal weed or things like that, but you don't get to have an opinion on hard data like how much a car costs, or who scored more points in a game.
LISTEN UP REDDIT!
All of the Reddit-isms but especially_'this' and _'you, I like you.' _Its just so lazy and latter in particular is just a poor substitute for wit or personality. If all you have to add to a conversation is _"This." T_hen just don't.
WITH CHILD...
Preggers, preggo, all of them are ridiculous.
OH SHUT UP!
"The most important thing is to have a positive attitude!"
Hated this when people said it to my mother who was battling cancer.
She's an old Scottish woman. She's never had a positive attitude.
She made it through cancer with spite, and sarcasm.
WHAT ABOUT A CRAWL SPACE?
"When God closes a door, he opens a window," thought the recently-fired and depressed man as he climbed out onto the 10th-story ledge.
TIGHTEN UP YO!
_"Loose" when you meant to type _"lose" but are too lazy or stupid to fix it.
THANKS I FEEL SOOOO MUCH BETTER...
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
Or, you know, maims you forever, causes insufferable pains or crippling depression and nobody will let you just die.
YES THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!
"Everything happens for a reason."
That's not very comforting.
Everything happens for a reason. Those reasons include: chance; physics; complete stupidity.
True, but the sentiment isn't supposed to be _"for every effect, there is a cause," but rather _"This event, which may seem tragic to you right now, serves a greater purpose set in motion by some deity/supernatural entity/cosmic intelligence for reasons that you would ultimately come to accept as morally positive."
I'M JUDGING YOU!
'Pacifically' instead of specifically.
DO YOU HEAR YOU?
Office lingo kills me, man. Especially this one: _"Touch base." _
Example:"Touch base with Michael and get updates on his project."
Why can't y'all just say _"Call Michael and ask him about his project" _
Try not to follow the bad advice given here, because you don't want to get the results that these guys did.
U/Duckerton375 asked: What's the worst advice someone ever gave you, but you still followed?
The workplace can bring a cornucopia of terrible advice. Don’t follow these unless you want to get fired.
​Bad jobs are usually not worth it.
Stick with a job no matter how bad it is. I stayed with a terrible job working retail, dealing with horrible customers and sexual harassment. I was told I wouldn't find anything better.
"No, no, you misunderstand. I said you wouldn't find anything better at making you feel like complete garbage."
This gets really creepy really fast.
frustrated workplace GIFGiphy"After you put in a job application, you need to call them at least once a day every day until they hire you."
Note: this did not get me hired. It got me called out by the HR person I was calling and forbidden to ever contact their facility again.
I work for a law firm that employees over 1500 people in the home office alone. Once I received a call from the building security saying, "Insert Name is here to speak with the owner." Well we are run by a committee so that's odd. Found out they just applied for a job and wanted to talk directly to the person that would potentially hire them. Told him the firm will contact them to schedule an interview. They refused to leave without "talking to the owner." Had security escort them out of the building.
​This is absolutely not true.
"Sleep is for people who do not want success" great words from my uncle, it almost killed me.
Now I may be oversleeping.
​Interpersonal relationships are also a big breeding ground for terrible advice. Don’t listen to any of these.
Heartbreaking.
My father always tought me and my brother that "having friends is bad and in the end they will never be there for you" so everytime I told my father about my friends he would get kinda mad and give me the advice to stop talking to them.
Now I am afraid of people and have several trust issues, thanks dad.
​This won’t end well.
A Christmas Story GIF by filmeditorGiphyIn the fifth grade my teacher was talking about bullying, then she said "if anyone tries to bully you just agree with them." So the next time I got bullied I agreed with the bully and they bullied me more.
Dude one time I saw an anti bullying video that told the victims to just BE NICE TO THE BULLY. Like the bully was hurling insults and the victim was smiling and complimenting him. My first thought was about how much I hated the mere thought that this would work. My second thought was of how the people who came up with that method had clearly never been bullied.
​Oof.
When I met my now wife at the age of 19, one of my coworkers said that it's very important to start at the bottom with presents and work your way up, she still has the socks I gave her on our first anniversary on the wall over our bed as a reminder...
I'm still trying to teach my boyfriend about good presents and bad presents. Biscuits from the supermarket = bad present. Cheap unbranded laptop battery from China as my only present = bad present (and only lasted 2 months). Anything off my 7-page wishlist = good present. It's literally a list of things I want to receive as presents.
​Can tell you from experience that this is a bad idea.
Had a falling out with some friends. My husband recommended I reach out to an old friend who ghosted me suddenly in a manner that induced some pretty severe abandonment trauma. Went for it anyways because "it's been so long, surely they changed". Am now experiencing the same things as last time.
When you follow bad advice, it can lead to mistakes that you just can’t come back from.​
Buying a house is tricky.
for sale dancing GIF by Lisa VertudachesGiphy"Buy a home now before the prices go up!" -my FIL in 2006.
We bought in 2007 and paid $259,500 for our 1,300 sq ft house (we really couldn't afford it and had an 80/20 so we had 8% interest for one loan and 6% on the other) and in 2008 it was worth $97,000 so refinancing wasn't even an option. We watched all of our neighbors walk away or get foreclosed on but we kept paying our bills and as of this very moment our house is worth $462,000. I'm so happy we stuck it out, we both worked our @sses off and the house will be paid off in 2 years.
It worked out for us, it's a horrible idea. Especially since 1300 sq ft houses are $460+k
My heartbreaks for future generations, I honestly don't know how people are going to afford housing in the future.
It’s there for a reason.
"Never apply for any government assistance."
Cue years of suffering trying to work full-time with a painful disability. Quit a particularly terrible job, and wanted to apply for food aid until I could find another gig; a friend with lots of DHS experience recommended I apply for Social Security "just to get in the system." Turns out my disability was bad enough to get accepted the first time, which I wasn't expecting. Really could've used that support, oh, the 30+ previous years of my life.
Credit is important to have.
I was told to not get a credit card until after college. I was super fortunate to have my college paid for so I had no loans, car paid in cash, no credit card or anything to start building credit. Found myself out in the world at 22 years old with a credit score of 0.
So while a lot of this bad advice came from trusted people, oftentimes they were too misinformed to give that advice in the first place. Don't trust the word of one person--do your research, and make decisions for yourself.
It'll be way better in the long run