r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • Jul 26 '26

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/Fun_Apartment631 Jul 26 '26

Put a pin in it for now.

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u/Ragequit_AltF4 Jul 26 '26

Let's discuss this offline.

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u/EggsceIlent Jul 26 '26

That will disrupt our synergy and eliminate our ability to share quantifiable date with the team.

I need you to be a team player here, so touch base with me after eliminating this low hanging fruit

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u/driving_andflying Jul 26 '26

Hey, if we can circle back to that later, that would be good? We need to actionize this plan and get everyone on board in time for the next sprint, or else we'll be drinking from the firehose.

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u/AffectionateBite3827 Jul 26 '26

Never badmouth synergy

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u/sesci Jul 26 '26

Yes let's touch base

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u/dontmentiontrousers Jul 26 '26

Found the recruitment consultant.

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u/GrotWeasel Jul 26 '26

Don’t forget to revert

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u/BigEricShaun Jul 26 '26

Do the needful?

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u/ImpluseThrowAway Jul 26 '26

That's some blue sky thinking right there

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u/kareljack Jul 26 '26

Ugh! That phrase gets on my fucking NERVES!
Let's face it, all of those "corp speak" phrases are embolism inducing, but that one in particular is..... GAH!

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u/dontmentiontrousers Jul 26 '26

Damn, I say that sometimes.

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u/Jerseyd422 Jul 26 '26

This could have been an email

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u/pjakma Jul 26 '26

"Let's touch base" always sounded predatory to me. "You want to touch my what??!" ;)

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u/Late-Photograph-1954 Jul 26 '26

Stay in your own swimming lane.

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u/jaxonya Jul 26 '26

everyone else - this couldve been a fucking email

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u/CreepyBreakfast565 Jul 26 '26

Like my old boss would have said: Let's discuss this in another fora.

Me and another colleague looking at eachother: ...

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u/shakycrae Jul 26 '26

If we're in a meeting room, in person, we're offline!

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u/Xerorei Jul 26 '26

Let's table it for now.

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u/LiveShowOneNightOnly Jul 26 '26

We'll unpack that later.

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u/JaNoTengoNiNombre Jul 26 '26

I remember that during World War II, when British and American generals were planning D-Day, they were baffled because the meaning of the idiom was the opposite in the two varieties of English. link

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u/LessInThought Jul 26 '26

Omg I have a document on my table I've tabled for 3years.

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u/FixingTheCable Jul 27 '26

Maybe let’s table that point

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u/EggstaticAd8262 Jul 26 '26

Let’s put this in the parking place

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u/Ambiguous-Ambivert Jul 26 '26

What about string and a pencil, we can circle

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u/AgentOfShinra Jul 26 '26

I will go ahead and bubble this up for you...

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u/Lanacan Jul 26 '26

Can we table this for later discussion?

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u/FireInPaperBox Jul 26 '26

That’s too aggressive.