‘What are your favourite passive aggressive corporate phrases and what do they actually mean?’ – 23 translations necessary to navigate work

13.

‘Me writing “as per my previous email” means I want to punch people.’
–Makkel

14.

‘”Please advise” = I don’t have a fucking clue what you’re on about.’
–dave_gregory42

15.

‘Nah it means “You’ve done something / you’ve advised me to do something and it’s broken everything. Fix your fail.”‘
–DoctorOctagonapus

16.

‘CC’ing their superiors in the email.’
–Dull_Hawk9416

17.

‘But then the absolute best is when you reply, explaining actually the issue is their fuck-up, and keeping the same bosses in the CC.’
–pip_goes_pop

18.

‘Please see the documentation you have access to. Aka read the instructions I gave you before giving you this thing because I knew you’d ask about this.’
–Melendine

19.

‘This decision was made and pre approved by another senior manager = I know it was a stupid decision that wouldn’t work that didn’t involve you like it was supposed to but they outranked me and there was nothing I could do about it.’
–Suluco87

20.

‘”Let’s just circle back to” means “stop changing the subject and let’s finally agree what we are meant to be doing”.’
–sbdart31

21.

”Just to clarify…’ -> I am about to reiterate what you’ve just said in a way that makes it clear to everyone involved in this benighted conversation that what you said was stupid/incorrect/impossible/all of the above.’
–oblectament

22.

‘”Understood” said in a very neutral voice = “Fuck you”.’
–ILikeItWhatIsIt_1973

23.

‘Great to hear back from you! – About fucking time.’
–FourCats44

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