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Mike Waters here from the Waters Wakeup call.
Today was National Cliché Day.
So we talked about the ones we have to wipe off the face of the earth.
I was in corporate America.
I swear you could not go into a meeting without 1,000 clichés.
I think there are more clichés in the workplace than anywhere else.
Yeah, and they're all sitting around a table and they just want their voices to be heard.
Right.
And they'll say things like, okay, we're in real green field here.
This is all new grass.
Okay, I've never heard that one.
Yeah, and then it was
It's like, oh, Bob, that's a great idea.
Let's run it up the flagpole.
Yeah,
see,
when he says that, I'd like to just grab the bull by the horns and punch him in the face.
That's what I want to do.
Yeah, but you haven't talked about what it is you're really talking about at all.
That's why I don't say a thing in meetings.
I just kind of sit there and wonder how they got the gigantic table in there.
It's like a ship and a bottle.
What's going on?
It was like seven years until I finally found those things came apart.
My bad, I hate it with a passion.
It's so overused and it's like, what's the matter?
You don't have multi-syllabic words in your vocabulary?
I think cliches are often used by people, and I think we all use them, but people who have less of a vocabulary use them more often.
It seems
like a very flippant way to say, I'm in the wrong.
It doesn't seem like you're sorry that you did the wrong thing.
Say if somebody messes you up at work and you get in trouble and you're really ticked off at that person.
And all they say is, my bad.
Oh, you just want to flick them in the forehead.
That's what you want to do.
You want to
flick them in the forehead.
You're trying to tell me it's not going to be raining cats and dogs?
No!
And what a terrible cliche!
Old one, too.
It's been around
forever.
I wonder where that even started, raining cats and dogs.
That
doesn't even make
sense.
No, it doesn't.
What does that mean?
Why would it be?
I mean, it's not just... To me, that doesn't mean, hey, it's really raining out there.
it means oh my god it's the end of the world these freak things are happening dogs and cats falling from the sky oh my god yes and that literally could
happen
It's hard to hear that.
Oh
boy.
Oh.
So
I looked at my mother and I said, just remember mom, God does not see you more than you can handle.
And what was her reaction?
She looked at me and she said, I'm going to learn to hate that phrase, aren't I?
And I said, oh yeah.
I'm sure you felt like, oh my God, this is more, losing a spouse?
That is, that's more than you can handle.
And if not, I don't know what would
be.
If
you're having something just tough happen with your marriage or at work and somebody says don't cry over spilt milk, I think that's belittling what you've got going on and what your mom said to you after your husband died.
That's an extreme example of that.
God never gives you more than you can handle.
The person who says that, you just...
Boy, you feel like smacking them and saying, you know what?
I've got more than I can handle, so... So you can leave now, thank you.
That's just how I felt.
It was like, mom, stop saying that.
Right.
I'm...
I reached the end of my role.
It's too bad you were able to give her an example of why you should never say that, but...
Yeah, my dad was a smoker and they told him if he could smoke and he'd live a long time and he couldn't give the cigarette that... Don't you
hate it when you sit across the room, it should be in a business meeting, it could be on a conference call?
or it can be on something and somebody continuously says, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, this is where we want to be.
Right.
Well, assuming that their day is the same as ours, you know?
Right.
Yeah, you say something like, at the end of this day, and then you got so much to do, I mean, your day goes until like midnight.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, it has to be done today, right?
Yeah, yeah.
You know, another one at work I don't like is one-sheeter.
Give me a one-sheeter on that.
Right.
And then I make a one-sheeter, then I give it to the boss, and he says, well, this isn't all of the information.
I'll always say, well, would you like me to start a second
page?
Weekday mornings, 5.30 to
10.
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