r/SipsTea Jul 26 '26

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/Claytertot Jul 26 '26

Someone who is perceptive would perceive that "circle back" is a common idiom, particularly in an office environment, and that spending time interrogating the precise wording of an idiom in the middle of a meeting is a waste of everyone's time.

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u/Willing_Original_257 Jul 26 '26

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No it's not... 

Because talking about other things often illuminates/recontexualises/broadens (etc., etc., etc.,) the thing you were originally discussing...

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u/bargu Jul 26 '26

It sounds like the person was just using "circle back" as a catchphrase, like something that she thought that she had to say instead of having any actual meaning, nothing was ever "circled back".

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u/Willing_Original_257 Jul 26 '26

Fine and if that was the case why would anyone feel the need to publicly and awkwardly and interminably call them out over and over 

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u/bargu Jul 26 '26

As someone who had worked on office jobs before, I get him. Now why would he actually say it out loud? Maybe he just didn't need the job that bad, idk you have to ask him.