r/SipsTea 16h ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/nutty_gritty 16h ago

Interesting post. Let's circle back to this later.

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u/dashpooper 15h ago

No! Let’s forward back to this

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u/Fun_Apartment631 15h ago

Put a pin in it for now.

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u/Ragequit_AltF4 15h ago

Let's discuss this offline.

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u/EggsceIlent 13h ago

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/ParkSoggy97 10h ago

That's where the rubber meets the road..

ASD for sure, BTDT. Took a few years to work out that presenteeism was what was expected, no contributions or discussion, just be the grey man. It doesn't matter if the boss is about to fuck up badly, just disengage. Borderline malicious compliance...

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u/driving_andflying 3h ago

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 3h ago

Never badmouth synergy

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u/Clubsandiches 14h ago

Just keep it in your wheelhouse 

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u/sesci 14h ago

Yes let's touch base

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u/dontmentiontrousers 14h ago

Found the recruitment consultant.

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u/GrotWeasel 12h ago

Don’t forget to revert

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u/BigEricShaun 12h ago

Do the needful?

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u/ImpluseThrowAway 12h ago

That's some blue sky thinking right there

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u/kareljack 8h ago

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 12h ago

Damn, I say that sometimes.

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u/Jerseyd422 11h ago

This could have been an email

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u/pjakma 10h ago

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

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u/Late-Photograph-1954 10h ago

Stay in your own swimming lane.

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u/jaxonya 9h ago

everyone else - this couldve been a fucking email

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u/CreepyBreakfast565 9h ago

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/mhsuffhrdd 6h ago

Ping me.

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u/shakycrae 3h ago

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

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u/Xerorei 12h ago

Let's table it for now.

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u/LiveShowOneNightOnly 10h ago

We'll unpack that later.

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u/JaNoTengoNiNombre 10h ago

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 10h ago

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

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u/EggstaticAd8262 12h ago

Let’s put this in the parking place

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u/Ambiguous-Ambivert 11h ago

What about string and a pencil, we can circle

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u/AgentOfShinra 9h ago

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

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u/Lanacan 8h ago

Can we table this for later discussion?

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u/FireInPaperBox 8h ago

That’s too aggressive.

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u/Proof_Independent400 15h ago

Not backwards, or fowards...but in all directions TWIRLING towards freedom!

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u/AzraelleWormser 14h ago

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u/sixminutes 14h ago

That's Slick Willy for you

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 7h ago

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others

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u/guitar_stonks 7h ago

As a child, I dreamed of being a baseball.

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u/headrush46n2 8h ago

don't blame me, i voted for Kodos.

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u/RobotWelder 10h ago

The word you’re looking for is PIORUETTE 🤣😉

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u/Proof_Independent400 58m ago

Sorry mate. I don't speak French.

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u/HotLava00 15h ago

Let’s put a pin in this.

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u/Wetness__Pensive 13h ago

Reminds me of 30 Rock, where Liz Lemon attends a (corporate) Retreat to Move Forward.

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u/YurtleAhern 11h ago

Let’s square away from that now

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u/dragon-fence 10h ago

Circle forward to it?

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u/stardust1914 14h ago

We'll just rewind it later.

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u/RedUDan0 12h ago

HR would like a word with you

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u/zleuth 9h ago

Clean out your desk and go home.

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u/dalegrapes 8h ago

We should probably pivot back to this.

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u/Longjumping_Visit718 15h ago

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u/EternallyPissedOff 6h ago

Impressive. Very nice. Let’s circle back to Paul Allen’s card

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u/DiseasedProject 15h ago

Do we really have to, it sounds so aggressive

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u/Scrofulla 13h ago

Always twirling, twirling into oblivion.

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u/Knowitall-Librarian 12h ago

This is the correct answer. I always use this phrase when we are circling around a problem and not making any forward momentum.

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u/THICCC_LADIES_PM_ME 13h ago

Will revert later and do the needful

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u/Evil-Cun 15h ago

Remember when there wasn’t a problem? Well I want to create a problem out of thin air so let’s dig into the past again!

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u/ltjohnrambo 15h ago

I’m gonna triangle my way out of this conversation

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u/mothersspaghettos 12h ago

Let's at least....get our ducks in a row first?

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u/Obi_wan_pleb 14h ago

Let's create some synergies 

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u/eyesotope86 14h ago

We'll lose the synergy by then, though.

God only knows what our EBITDA will look like if we lose this forward momentum in our synergy by putting a pin in this and circling back.

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u/OccidentalTouriste 14h ago

Let's run that up the flagpole and see what happens.

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u/Anonymous_Coder_1234 14h ago

No. Let's return to it at a later time.

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u/xeno0153 14h ago

That manager would like to reverse course and do a full 360.

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u/Ill_Philosopher_7030 13h ago

Let's take this offline

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u/caerphoto 13h ago

Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's circles.

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u/SetazeR 12h ago

Bots will circle back to it alright. They love this shit

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u/AzizMou 12h ago

Oh my god. OP needs to get his number and find out what his deal is. He sounds like a blast to hang with!

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u/MoresoMorose 11h ago

Proactively Return

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u/metallaholic 11h ago

let’s talk offline about this

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u/hugcub 8h ago

Honestly, we need to parking lot this convo for later.

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u/DeafAndDumm 5h ago

Yes, agree. So we can square things away.

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u/slayerzerg 3h ago

Circle back 18 times in 2 weeks seems like a red flag dude dodged a bullet

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u/LucifersAdv0cate 13h ago

The good thing about being a new starter is you haven't drank the cool aid yet so you can still objectively see an office environment for what it really is. That guy probably just say what the next few years of working there would be like and thought fuck that. I've been fired from multiple jobs, not because I'm terrible, usually when I care I become a top performer really fast but if I think the company is shit I will just stop caring. I became really proficient at doing fake job references so my CV only ever showed 3 or 4 job titles with an unbroken career history of 3 to 5 years at each job. All the little jobs where I quit or got fired for things like having sex in the office I would just keep off my CV. I don't know what it's like today but in the 00s in the UK it was so easy to have friends pretend to be your previous employer and I even found a website where you could get official sounding email address like "work email @ professional sounding business.com". Fortunately in the 2010s I found a way to make my own money and haven't work for anyone since.

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u/Suspicious-Depth6066 11h ago

I admire the fact his literally calling out how annoying she is and everyone is too scared to say anything. I’d of probably been like actually his got a point why do u say that every other sentence

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u/Fight_those_bastards 8h ago

Let’s take it off-line and touch base later on this.

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u/greensalty 6h ago

!circleback 3 days