Here are the results of a nationwide poll conducted among the employees at my firm. There were 4000+ responders.
In my personal work experience I only hear the last two and then not so frequently that they bother me. I suspect that says more about my lack of contact with the outside business world than it does about the poll. Mostly I just sit at my computer and crunch numbers, review tax returns prepped by other staff members, and drink coffee. They don't let me anywhere near the clients :-)
How about you? Ooooh, I have an idea -- let's make this a contest. (Whoring for comments again. Hey, I'm not proud.)
Everyone who submits a comment with his or her submission for "phrase I hear at work that most makes me want to hurl the nearest colleague out the window" will get their name placed gently into a wooly container for the drawing.
Deadline is, um, ...
Hah! Got it. Midnight CDT April 17, 2007. Same deadline as for your tax return if you live in my time zone.
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I'm forgetting something. What is it?
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Oh. Prizes. Hmmm.
Don't know. Maybe chocolate, maybe yarn, maybe a lifetime supply of SweetTarts. Or white-out. Whatever. I'll decide later.
Go ahead. Knock my [hand-knit] socks off.
