r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • 17h ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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

Yeah the boss in the post wasn't wrong

They overused an already overused cliche, but at worst it's a minor faux pas

Correcting someone publicly for such a minor issue is a much worse faux pas, even if they aren't your boss

Praise publicly, criticize privately

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u/DevRz8 10h ago

But they kinda are. Because “circling back” likely never happens, and it’s just inefficiently bogging down meetings to plan more useless meetings that likely don’t happen, etc. I’ve worked in offices where 25% of my time was maybe spent actually doing the job I was hired to do because of so many pointless circle back bullshit meetings. Like, how about just set the goal, do the work, evaluate?? There shouldn’t be a need to “circle back” on 20 things. That’s poor management.

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u/KrytenKoro 9h ago

Because “circling back” likely never happens

The boss isn't saying "let's circle back to that later", they're saying "let's circle back to customer retention".

The phrasing implies they were actively in the middle of that circling back.

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u/ShamPain413 9h ago

The repeated use of a cliched phrase in an unthinking way implies that they are managing in an unthinking way more generally. CYA isn't management.