I don't think that's new. I have heard that saying for as long as I can remember.
Not only that, but "reach out and touch someone" was an AT&T marketing slogan many years ago...
This new fad of people saying that they "reached out" to someone when they contacted or attempted to contact them gives me the creeps. It sounds so touchy-feely.
...touching me, touching you?
Sweet Caroline... Popular when I was a little kid so that dates it, and him!Neil Diamond?
For me it's how "department" somehow turned into "team". We aren't football players here!The one that peeves me is when somebody "successfully completes" some activity. Ummm, if it wasn't "successful" then it wouldn't be complete. The self-promotion trainers should be successfully retrained completely to drop the "successful" crap.
For me it's how "department" somehow turned into "team". We aren't football players here!
The people who work in stores aren't called employees anymore, they're "team members." And the people who shop at my local supermarket aren't customers, they're "guests." If I'm a guest, where's my room?
And it's not very hospitable making your guests pay for stuff!
True, but other than those ads, I don't think it was a common expression in those days. And I've been noticing it MUCH more often in the last year or two.
The AT&T ads predate that time by quite a bit, so I suspect that it's been in common use for decades.
"Team members"? I thought they were "Associates"? They sell "solutions". With "functionalities". That are "scaleable". Used for "thinking outside the box". And to improve your "delta" (whatever that is). I hafta quit, I'm making myself nauseous.The people who work in stores aren't called employees anymore, they're "team members."
"Team members"? I thought they were "Associates"?
This new fad of people saying that they "reached out" to someone when they contacted or attempted to contact them gives me the creeps. It sounds so touchy-feely.
It is fine if called by a tcl script. I just hate fingering people without a plan. What's the point?As long as they use the Unix finger command first, I don't see problem.
Not only that, but "reach out and touch someone" was an AT&T marketing slogan many years ago. Of course, that was likely before the culture became sexualized to the point where just about anything could be a creepy double entendre.
I do like "reach out and touch someone" when applied to a .338 Lapua or .50 Barrett ...
I remember years ago when people started talking about "interacting". The vernacular changes all the time, always has. Bitching about it just points up how old and out of touch you are.
I'm pretty sure that is Cliff Robertson. Take it back, take back what you said about 'thus guy'.Pretty sure thus guy would be required to register as as sex offender in this day and age.