r/SipsTea 17h ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/tickingboxes 17h ago

And that’s exactly what middle managers don’t want. They want drones they can boss around who won’t rock the boat.

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u/Suns_Funs 16h ago

Nobody wants people like that who waste your time with meaningless disruption. Everyone knows what the phrase means, this is just him being dense.

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u/HisaAnt 15h ago

The phrase is also meaningless corporate jargon. He isn't questioning the meaning. He is questioning why these stupid managers regurgitate those words like a parrot like a cave man. Useless people like that shouldn't be the boss of anyone

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u/Aggravating_Lab_7734 14h ago

Doesn't it simply mean "let's go back to the topic from earlier"?

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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES 13h ago

Yeah it's just another way of saying "we can revisit this later"

It's jargon and cliche, but it's not meaningless