This isn’t unique but I can’t stand “please advise”

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Oct 8, 2019
9:16:39am

Extra Biscuits Playmaker

This isn’t unique but I can’t stand “please advise”

It comes across as an impatient command directed as a result of perceived stupidity or lack of forethought on the part of the person it’s being directly at when, typically, the person telling you to “advise” simply didn’t read the instructions.

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Extra Biscuits

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Best "unique" phrases you learned at work?

Ragnar Danneskjold #$4,000,000neverforget

10/8/19 8:44am

I spend a lot of time in construction. I should probably not participate in this thread.

kccougar

10/8/19 8:48am

Love that phrase. I heard it in a little different context - a bad idea or dumb

Santos L. Halper

10/8/19 8:50am

That's something I'd want to get addressed.

zerigke

10/8/19 8:58am

Had a co-worker who would say fantabulous. It was awful.

10/8/19 9:03am

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macaroni

10/8/19 9:08am

“Three legged dog is better than no dog”

Noni Fruit

10/8/19 9:09am

I had a coworker who always used the term "netizen" to talk about people on the

Skeptical Optimist

10/8/19 9:12am

This isn’t unique but I can’t stand “please advise”

10/8/19 9:16am

"I've got a booger to wipe on you" meaning an unpleasant task/assignment

byujag

10/8/19 9:17am

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king

run26

10/8/19 9:26am

Volentold

BlueFreak

10/8/19 9:29am

*Voluntold

Iman23

10/8/19 9:43am

Dollars to donuts. Hate it.

Pro Logic

10/8/19 9:30am

hate that one so much. Also "circle back" "touch base" and "notional"

Mayor of Cougartown

10/8/19 9:41am

"From soup to nuts"

MapCoug

10/8/19 9:33am

That's a pretty common idiom. Means from beginning to end - a full course dinner

Skeptical Optimist

10/8/19 9:41am

It’s stupid because who really ever sees a tray of nuts after dinner?

run26

10/8/19 9:48am

sounds dumb like something Europeans would do and then rip Americans for being

Mayor of Cougartown

10/8/19 9:52am

The fanciest restaurant I've ever eaten at put out a tray of nuts with the bill at the end of the meeting

cheezedawg

10/8/19 3:48pm

Annoying lady at work always says, "somebody has a case of the Mondays"

Thrill

10/8/19 10:06am

Misused phrase seen in email a few times: "touch all basis" instead of "bases"

Thrill

10/8/19 10:09am

The retired navy guy on our dock always has best lines "That guy can kiss my

Kauai

10/8/19 10:12am

"flush something out" when they mean "flesh something out"

Iman23

10/8/19 10:21am

"The guy is so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel".

HighHorse

10/8/19 5:04pm

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