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Work Lingo Your Younger Co-Workers Don't Understand · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, So if you work with some younger people
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  Speaker 1: in the office, be careful using these sayings correct.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we may be losing them.
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  Speaker 1: Like they don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: They don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: So we're finding some typical office things that we hear
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  Speaker 3: around here all the time, coupy just like touch base
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  Speaker 3: or circle back. They're not as into those phrases, and
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  Speaker 3: some of them they simply don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, they have to know what touch base is.
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  Speaker 3: I think you can put it together. But in the
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  Speaker 3: pipeline okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if I know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: In the pipeline means it's it's still in price.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little lost on that too. You would think, right,
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  Speaker 2: what a contract done?
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  Speaker 1: Yet, No, it's in the pipeline. In the pipeline, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: unclogged that pipe.
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  Speaker 3: Something is being worked on or planned but just isn't
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  Speaker 3: ready yet.
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  Speaker 1: Touch base, touch base, you have to know what that means.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently they don't. Like there's a The younger generation is like, huh,
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  Speaker 3: what do you mean touch Maybe they're thinking of it.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a company softball game?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, That's what I'm thinking. Are like, oh, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 3: maybe it's a real thing. Put it on the back burner.
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  Speaker 1: That means it's not important right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not an urgent. It can it can sit there,
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  Speaker 3: it can simmer like a crock pot. Yeah, it can
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  Speaker 3: run all day. Hit the ground running.
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  Speaker 1: Hit the ground running means we're not going to waste
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  Speaker 1: any time here. We're just gonna just roll with it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go go on, start a new project confidently making
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  Speaker 3: immediate impacts.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, you're ready to head a meeting right there? Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 2: come on up, let's continue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's take this off line.
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  Speaker 1: That means that we're probably I'm trying to I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why I'm talking this out with you by just
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  Speaker 1: making sure I understand. Yeah, that means, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: in a text thread or email thread. Other people are involved,
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  Speaker 1: so you just want to take it up with that
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  Speaker 1: particular person one on one.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, you want to continue a discussion privately rather
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  Speaker 3: than everyone's involved. Push the envelope. They're kind of going,
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  Speaker 3: excuse me, what does that mean? Here's an envelope, push
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  Speaker 3: it across the table.
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean like taking a chance.
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  Speaker 3: No, Well, it just means that you're challenging the limits
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  Speaker 3: or trying something innovative.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be pushing the envelope here, push the envelope.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so actually, if you heard that from a boss, like,
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  Speaker 1: don't be pushing the envelope c Coby, or don't be
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  Speaker 1: pushing the envelope Christine.
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  Speaker 3: Or they that would be a bad thing, or they
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  Speaker 3: want you to push the envelope, like, go ahead, try it,
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  Speaker 3: take a little bit of a risk, take a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how it goes. How about I push you? Sure?
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  Speaker 3: Blue Sky thinking lost us all there?
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  Speaker 2: What is blue Sky thinking that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I completely can't even describe that one.
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  Speaker 1: Blue Sky thinking.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up with ambitious or imaginative ideas without worrying about
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  Speaker 3: practical constraints. Oh as if there were no repercussions, what
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  Speaker 3: would you do?
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  Speaker 1: Blue Sky almost like the world?
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  Speaker 2: Well does your oyster?
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  Speaker 3: Oh we lost him again? And finally move the needle.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of like, excuse me, what move the needle?
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if I know what this means. It
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  Speaker 1: means you know, you're kind of I don't know, not
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  Speaker 1: moving right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're lost too.
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  Speaker 3: You're not moving to make a noticeable difference or have
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  Speaker 3: a significant impact. You want to move the needle, you
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  Speaker 3: want to change things a little.
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  Speaker 1: And the needle like a like a v U needle.
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  Speaker 3: Well we're in radio, so that's our needle. Like a
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  Speaker 3: little chart like okay, move and then it goes up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I got Yeah, that's a better visual.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm thinking. I don't all right, this is
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  Speaker 3: why I don't hold meetings.