{"id":242964,"date":"2023-12-05T05:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=242964"},"modified":"2023-12-05T05:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:03:31","slug":"common-office-icks-that-should-be-banned-in-2024-looping-you-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/common-office-icks-that-should-be-banned-in-2024-looping-you-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Common &apos;office&apos; icks that should be banned in 2024: &apos;Looping you in&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> The common office &#8216;icks&#8217; that should be banned in 2024 &#8211; and everyone is guilty of at least one<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Australians reveal the corporate lingo they &#8216;can&#8217;t stand&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0\u00a0Why Gen Zs and millennials are giving up their day jobs\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australian office workers have shared the corporate lingo that &#8216;gives them the ick&#8217; &#8211; and &#8216;just looping you in&#8217; is at the top of the hate list.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Z has a more &#8216;casual&#8217; approach to professional communication &#8211; as illustrated by how they structure &#8216;out of office&#8217; emails\u00a0and blatantly refuse to make phone calls anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many find the corporate communication buzzwords offputting, and employees from retailer Decjuba have listed the worst phrases from the endless emails that fill their inbox.<\/p>\n<p>In a viral video, the young men and women slammed lingo like &#8216;low-hanging fruit&#8217; and &#8216;[getting your] ducks in a row&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Happy Monday&#8217; gives me the ick,&#8217; a man said. &#8216;I hate Monday mornings. Two hours before being at work I was in bed. It&#8217;s not a happy Monday, is it?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, another couldn&#8217;t stand &#8216;Happy Friday&#8217; &#8211; because if it was &#8216;happy&#8217; the weekend would be there already.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others claimed they didn&#8217;t like &#8216;take if offline&#8217; or the post-pandemic classic &#8216;nice to e-meet you&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Stop saying &#8216;low-hanging fruit&#8217;,&#8217; a woman said.\u00a0&#8216;We&#8217;re not fruit!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One took issue with the lack of clarity behind &#8216;getting your ducks in a row&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Where are the ducks? What are the ducks?&#8217; she asked. The phrase typically means to\u00a0to organise yourself before proceeding to a task.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I don&#8217;t like &#8216;<\/span>let&#8217;s think outside the box&#8217;,&#8217; one said.<\/p>\n<p>An office worker said, &#8216;An ick is when you get an email that says &#8216;I hope this email finds you well&#8217; &#8211; it never does.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Millennial marketing exec shares the &#8216;bizarre and informal&#8217; ways her Gen Z colleagues sign off their emails and out of office &#8211; sparking heated debate\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/01\/65158361-12825579-The_out_of_office_messages_were_far_from_straight_forward_the_ge-a-19_1701740886972.jpg\" height=\"319\" width=\"586\"><\/p>\n<p>Many Aussies previously discussed email jargon they can&#8217;t stand with &#8216;per my last email&#8217;, &#8216;just to clarify&#8217; and &#8216;as previously discussed&#8217; among the worst offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Workers perceived &#8216;per my last email&#8217; as a thinly veiled dig at the recipient about ignoring previous correspondence while still sounding professional.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A man said &#8216;hope this helps&#8217; is just a passive-aggressive way of telling people you have supplied them with the requisite information, but have no intention of completing the task for them.<\/p>\n<p>Others felt it was code for &#8216;never ask me for anything ever again&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/02\/31047366-12825579-A_woman_says_what_everyone_is_thinking_about_the_corporate_phras-a-21_1701744655401.jpg\" height=\"253\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A woman says what everyone is thinking about the corporate phrase &#8216;per my last email&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>Corporate email jargon decoded<\/h3>\n<p><span>&#8216;Per my last email&#8217;<\/span> &#8211; The information is in previous correspondence. Why did not bother to read it before asking?<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Hope this helps&#8217; <\/span>&#8211; Never ask me for anything again.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Thank you for your feedback, I&#8217;ll be sure to keep it in mind&#8217;<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; Your criticism is incorrect and irrelevant and I&#8217;ll never consider it.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Just to clarify&#8217; <\/span>&#8211; Do you realise how stupid that sounds?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Just circling back&#8217;<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; Give me an answer to my question right now.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;As previously discussed&#8217;<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; I didn&#8217;t put it in writing last night because I assumed it was obvious and that you were an adult.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;While I understand your urgency&#8217;<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; Just because you didn&#8217;t do something when you were supposed to doesn&#8217;t make it my problem.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I&#8217;ll let you two take it from here&#8217; <\/span>&#8211; 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