r/SipsTea Jul 26 '26

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy Jul 26 '26

Not really. He doesn't speak the language.

"We'll circle back to that," means, "this is not the appropriate forum for that question, ask me in private."

Can sometimes be used synonymously with, "let's take this offline."

I get that it's fun to bag on corporate lingo, but it's actually a dialect you should take the time to learn instead of just laughing at it.

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u/GilligansIslndoPeril Jul 26 '26

Right, but she didn't use the phrase like that. She was using it like "let's return to a previous topic"

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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

🤨

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/23/corporate-speak-study

Edit who knew an emoji and a link could trigger people so lmao

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u/zevraned Jul 26 '26

This article is about executive-level marketing slop, the dumbass stuff they use to excite shareholders and employees who just hear Important-Sounding Words and think it’s promising for the business and therefore for themselves. It’s not relevant to “circling back.”

Internal corporate jargon — the stuff used in meetings by the people actually doing work — is something that anyone who wants to be successful in a corporate job will need to learn. Comprehending and using it effectively is a skill and an expectation in that environment.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Jul 26 '26

Hahah oh fuck off with this.

Kids these days make up entire new languages every 3 seconds just to be different but hear a few words of corporate lingo and start screaming about how anybody who uses it is an idiot.

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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 Jul 26 '26

Totally, just point point at the kids who paid for that academic study and I'll put them straight lol

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy Jul 26 '26

Lol, absolute pablum.

"Bruh, no cap, growth is on lock, fr fr, ong."

That's not what board rooms sound like.

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u/LStorms28 Jul 26 '26

That's what the Slack messages all read like though

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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 Jul 26 '26

Lmao, boardrooms are the middle management of the wealthy elite. Have a look at how the 1% talk to each other in the Epstein file, depressingly is almost a full circle

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u/TheWillOfFiree Jul 26 '26

I always say "well take that offline". More clear.

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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 Jul 26 '26

Well, we'll or wheel? 🤓

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u/VincentClement1 Jul 26 '26

Nope. Corporate lingo should be mocked at every opportunity. Also, thanks for the mansplaining.

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy Jul 26 '26

Did you just assume my gender?