I am hearing this a lot now in meetings, if the meeting is scheduled for an hour, 45 minutes into it when its done someone will say "Ok, we are wrapped up so we will give you back 15 minutes" Your not giving me back shit, the meeting is done

How about you give me back the last 45 minutes for your stupid meeting?

Amen, could not have said it better.

I don't understand this corp-speak. What do they mean by "giving it back"?

I specifically don't speak corporatese, I've found without exception people who've got actual say in the running of things find it refreshing.

I hear this all the time in meetings, and this is at a school.

The other concept is "found time" (i.e. when the cancel a meeting and it's supposed to be a gift to me).

I haven't heard it yet but will now be on the lookout.

So.... if they are giving back 15 minutes, does that mean I can leave 15 minutes early?

just another idiot phrase like "reach out to".

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Originally posted by MPB:
just another idiot phrase like "reach out to".

I thought that was "reach around"...



To OP.

Next time you hear it, raise your voice and say: "You keep the 15 minutes, I'll take the money."

Then watch the looks you get when logic slaps them back to reality.

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
I am hearing this a lot now in meetings, if the meeting is scheduled for an hour, 45 minutes into it when its done someone will say "Ok, we are wrapped up so we will give you back 15 minutes" Your not giving me back shit, the meeting is done

How about you give me back the last 45 minutes for your stupid meeting?

Conceptually, since you accepted the meeting invite and are at the meeting, you were prepared to spend the whole hour at the meeting. But now that the meeting is finished 15 minutes early, you do have 15 minutes back that you can do something else.

But I know you know this. I just don't get why you don't simply say what you posted at the meeting. Oh, yeah, because you like to keep your job. Never mind.

I get that "we" don't like corporate-lingo as oftentimes the optics and audio are sub-optimal. But sometimes, phrases like "giving you back 15 minutes" are pretty straight forward and self-explanatory.

What's wrong with just saying "this meeting is done." I mean everyone, I assume, knows how to fucking tell time and knows the meeting ended early.

Is that their way of saying "you better find some shit to do in the next fifteen minutes"?

Meetings: No single one of us can be as stupid as all of us combined.

RMD

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just another idiot phrase like "reach out to".

Glad to see I am not alone in finding this phrase irritating. The use of nouns as verbs, such as partnering, transitioning and the like. We used to have firemen, policeman we now have "first responders", no doctors anymore just "healthcare providers". Our language at times is meaningless. If he were still alive George Carlin would have a field day with what our language has become. The funniest I heard was I homicided that guy.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
you do have 15 minutes back that you can do something else.

Right, and since I've already accounted for that 15 minutes of lost productivity, I'm going across the street for a cup of coffee. (government job)

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Originally posted by MikeGLI:
I don't understand this corp-speak. What do they mean by "giving it back"?

It's the Chair's clever way of giving you a false sense that you're somehow getting away with something.

This is lieu of a raise.

Yeah, I hate that.

Corp Speak

"Bubble up"

To me it just means the 45 minute nap I just took during the meeting wasn't long enough. I'll take an added 15.

Oh yea.

All. The. Time.

Seems we're not alone.

It is giving melenials 15 minutes back to surf the Internet.

Sounds like someone took a management class.