It’s always irked me when people are hyper-professional/ speak drastically different than they do at home. Obviously it’s not good practice to show up to work slandering others or belittling people, but I wish more people would just be themselves. We all sat around before our meeting cracking jokes and laughing, but once the meeting started people started speaking with their rich vocabs and stereotypical phrases. “I love watching this community grow”, “We’re here to nurture them and guide them through this system”.
I don’t know, it’s always irked me when people speak blithely and say phrases that millions of others have repeated word for word. Not sure how to describe what exactly bothers me, but it’s something to do with sudden professionalism. We’re all human and nobody at home goes around speaking at an almost delusional level about how important their jobs are/ acting as if the world is perfect when speaking. My job tasks are fairly simple and straightforward, yet people at work make it sound really weird, strange, and complicated when they talk about it or describe it in lavish detail or words. Like, ma’am… my job takes 20 words to accurately sum up and you just went on for a thousand words picking it apart to the atom.
Edit: Just googled it and apparently it’s called “talking corporate” when people use phrases like “touch base”, “Any end of business comments?”, “Mitigation” blah blah blah. Yuck.