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Speaker 1: This is the fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: The Worst Cases of Phrases in the Workplace. That's what

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Speaker 2: I hear from you this morning, thirteen twenty fourteen. It

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Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, I do find it when you

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Speaker 2: when you find your brand value sometimes, And Kate, I've

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Speaker 2: always I've always spoke about this as a young junior

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Speaker 2: playing football at the port along a footy club. I

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Speaker 2: always remember up on the wall was you are a

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Speaker 2: small cog in a large machine. Without that cog, the

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Speaker 2: machine ceases to function. It's a bit wordy, yes, but

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Speaker 2: I was very skinny and slight, and I go, you

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Speaker 2: know what, I am the small cog in this machine.

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Speaker 2: Whenever I was injured, they'd still win.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter bad class sort of a spare part.

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Speaker 1: You have a spare part of the cog.

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Speaker 3: You also need the cog on the good cold bench.

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Speaker 1: You need be cock exactly right.

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Speaker 2: So I've got a mate who he goes Mate, I

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Speaker 2: keep asking him all the time, house work going and

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Speaker 2: he gaves arts. Just struggling at the moment. I think

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Speaker 2: every industry is going through this, and it's really tough

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Speaker 2: with the economy, cost of living and all this kind

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Speaker 2: of stuff. But he said, if I hear my boss

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Speaker 2: say the words economic headwinds one more time.

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Speaker 1: Well it's the new normalism. And I suppose you just

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Speaker 1: have to manage expectations. And then I'll circle back and

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Speaker 1: let you know.

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Speaker 2: If I get pushed If I get pushed back one

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Speaker 2: more time because of economic headwinds.

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Speaker 3: What does that mean? Exactly? It's challenging, so you flying

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Speaker 3: against the wind economically, it's not.

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Speaker 2: It means what you're asking for is not what you're

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Speaker 2: doing to get because.

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Speaker 1: Of the economy. It's out of it. If you know

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Speaker 1: what it's. It's it's taking the personal side and the

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Speaker 1: blame and the power out of it and suggesting that

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Speaker 1: there is a larger scale issue that's not in my

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Speaker 1: hands or in my control. It's the economic headwinds that

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Speaker 1: we're all going through and not what's going on here

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Speaker 1: in this company.

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Speaker 2: Who's up for an idea?

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Speaker 1: Shower?

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Speaker 3: I don't want to be showered by anyone in the workplace.

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Speaker 3: Just quietly.

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Speaker 2: This same made as well. This is a beauty, he said,

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Speaker 2: I remember this one. I wrote it down straight away.

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Speaker 2: But he said he had a boss come in one

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Speaker 2: day and go anyone keen to climb the strategic staircase, na.

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Speaker 1: Get out and walk back in and start again.

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Speaker 3: Surely, when people are saying those things, I mean, if

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Speaker 3: you can hear yourself, you just feel so ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: There was a boss that I used to have, and

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Speaker 1: he used to talk about you know, he used to

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Speaker 1: talk about the mood in the office and when things

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Speaker 1: will good, everyone would move around a lot more. So.

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Speaker 1: He would say motion equals emotion. So as if to say,

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Speaker 1: when you see people movie you can tell they're passionate

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Speaker 1: about things. Shut up, idiot, have to.

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Speaker 3: Some of these things are quite tricky to say, so

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Speaker 3: that when you come up with a new one, or

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Speaker 3: maybe you've heard the new catchphrase, do you practice it

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Speaker 3: at home in front of the mirror before you present.

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Speaker 2: Let's move the needles another one or do you know

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Speaker 2: the other one? Let's hey, let's unpack this. Have you

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Speaker 2: got some time?

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Speaker 1: Let's unpack that take long time to unpack?

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Speaker 3: San, So I think that I've even found myself.

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Speaker 1: Unpacking your left nostrum. That's different again.

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Speaker 3: Your parton I think it's a good one.

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Speaker 1: Tommy's got a good one, which Tommy says, well, I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to die on the hill over that. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: what's that reference to. It's a bit of picking your battles,

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Speaker 1: you know badly? Do you want to win your fight?

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Speaker 1: Is it worth? I'm not going to die this.

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Speaker 2: We hear it from you at least three or four

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Speaker 2: times a day. Tom, Marcel's given us a call from Clontarf.

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Speaker 2: Give us the worst phrase. You've here to work, Marcel.

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Speaker 4: That's not in my job description?

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Speaker 1: How good is that? That's a politicians term, I reckon.

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Speaker 1: They quietly have that sitting in their back pocket.

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Speaker 2: Yet Marcel, these days it's not in your job a description,

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Speaker 2: but work seems to get you to do more job.

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Speaker 2: So we are now doing more around the office. This

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Speaker 2: is the thing.

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Speaker 1: Multitasking, Master, Multitasking is the big another key word thirteen

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Speaker 2: Get involved, Dmitry and going me, what do you got

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Speaker 2: for us to matry?

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Speaker 5: Okay, guys, look, I've got to fancy. He's like super

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Speaker 5: keen on all these phrases just to get us motivated.

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Speaker 5: The first one I got for you, guys, is it tofu?

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Speaker 1: Sorry?

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Speaker 5: Mate, He's like, tofu, you know, tofu the food you eat? Yes,

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Speaker 5: And he's like, guys, don't forget tofu you know. And

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Speaker 5: we're like, what are you talking about? And he's like,

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Speaker 5: take ownership and follow up, guys, And.

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Speaker 3: I love the way you roll the guys. Take the

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Speaker 3: ownership and.

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Speaker 6: Follow because do you know what tofu is an actual

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Speaker 6: food that represents the saying I.

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Speaker 5: Under a say. And we walk out of the meeting

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Speaker 5: and were smile in the meeting. We're like, yeah, we

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Speaker 5: We're just shake it.

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Speaker 1: Out legitimate, like is he not saying it with a

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Speaker 5: He's like, don't forget to even writes on the team

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Speaker 5: my thought and we're like, oh my god, I'm just joking.

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Speaker 5: Oh you know when someone wants to part something else

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Speaker 5: to someone else and delegate it. He's like, no, the

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Speaker 5: issue started with you. And he's like, just remember there's

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Speaker 5: another one he used you like, Cradle to Grace, guys,

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Speaker 5: Cradle to Great Up. When an issue pops up, you've

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Speaker 5: got to manage it and you've got to sort it out,

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Speaker 5: and then you've got to get it finish, to get

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Speaker 2: And we're like, oh my god, to Gram so you too, lyric,

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Speaker 3: It sounds like can I I'm going to jump in

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Speaker 1: A really good one.

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Speaker 3: And it's always floating around this office. So you're with me,

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Speaker 3: f I mean, how bad is when Wednesday?

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Speaker 2: When all right get involved? One of the cause worst

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Speaker 2: cases of phrases that you've heard at work? Lauren and Avalon,

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Speaker 2: What was the worst phrase you've heard?

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Speaker 4: The only place that success comes before work is in

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Speaker 4: the dictionary. I'm a teacher at school, so it's up

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Speaker 4: in this up in the starffroom. We look at it

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Speaker 4: every day.

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Speaker 2: This is a teacher. This is in the staff room, Lauren,

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Speaker 2: no pressure, You've got to You've got a graffiti that

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Speaker 2: at some stage one and.

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Speaker 4: There maybe probably could.

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Speaker 1: We will add it to the list.

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Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, there are some that do motivate you.

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Speaker 2: I mustard.

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Speaker 3: Ted Larso what did they have in the change rooms? Believe?

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Speaker 1: Just believe one word.

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Speaker 2: From Liverpool. What's the worst phrase that you hear at work? Dina?

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Speaker 2: One team wondering.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: So we're all in the same wind, divided works like

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Speaker 3: we all have the same shared purpets, Like my purpose

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Speaker 3: is to work and then leaves in.

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Speaker 1: Everyone often followed I think I might work from home

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Speaker 1: back in Blacktown. What's the worst phrase you've heard at work?

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Speaker 4: Hi, guys, I used to work at Bunnies and whenever

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Speaker 4: we'll be at the paint desk, at least someone would

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Speaker 4: come in and ask us if we could mix in

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Speaker 4: checked paint for them.

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Speaker 1: You could mix what sorry, check it paint? Very good?

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Speaker 1: It's very good. Laugh with a left handed screw drather

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Speaker 1: ugh there.

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Speaker 2: We had a boss. We had a boss that we nicknamed.

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Speaker 2: He found out one day too.

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Speaker 1: What was nickname?

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Speaker 2: Well, his nickname was Sunset because he would always he

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Speaker 2: of the day. At the end of the day, guys,

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, we've got to do

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Speaker 1: That's like one of the most common phrases in the

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Speaker 1: in the English language at the end of the day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's massive, Mandy. Hello, Hello, you're from Scone. Mandy, that's

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Speaker 1: great news. What's your phrase?

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Speaker 5: What's my save sorry phrase?

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Speaker 1: From work?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Moving forward, it's pretty much saying shut the.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard, I've heard you out, But where.

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Speaker 2: Are we going from here? Or in a meeting when

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Speaker 2: someone goes okay, moving forward, why don't we Tom just

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Speaker 2: started talking. We're going to let him here, We're going.

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Speaker 1: To hear him, but moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Mandy, Natalie and BONDI worst phrase at work.

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Speaker 5: Well, this one isn't really a motivation one, but I

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Speaker 5: have a colleague who always says, at the end of

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Speaker 5: the day, off like mum undis.

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Speaker 1: Once he's done, oh, I'm heading off like mum's undies.

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Speaker 5: He says.

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Speaker 4: It's a common Australian term, but we've all never heard of.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it off like a bride's nightie?

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Speaker 3: It's a common I am not in twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: I'll start to question his mother and what's her address?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: World on Lauren Alesi's giving a skill from Cheesey. We're

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Speaker 2: going to continue the worst phrases that you that you've

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Speaker 2: heard at work, Elisha.

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Speaker 1: My one is we do a deep dive.

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Speaker 2: We're going to dive seeper.

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Speaker 3: Into the data.

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Speaker 5: We will do a dig dive on that this afternoon,

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Speaker 5: circle back and then with a cern.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll reach out to them later on. Just give

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Speaker 1: a call if you want, might give me call.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Michelle and Narrava in worst phrase at work.

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Speaker 5: Oh Hi, worst phrase at work is circle back around,

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Speaker 5: which is what the other lady said, circle back around

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Speaker 5: so many times, but.

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Speaker 1: He just leaves you feeling dizzy completely in fact understanding

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Speaker 1: on a lazy and just spinning.

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Speaker 2: Spots around the office eight times today and we still

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Speaker 2: haven't got an answer.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking busy.

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Speaker 2: He's your answer, economic headwind.

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Speaker 1: They're coming at me, mate, coming at me.

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Speaker 2: Shorn in north Kelly. Worst phrase at work whenever my.

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Speaker 5: Box has an issue.

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Speaker 2: It so I needed to lean in on this plate.

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Speaker 1: Guy, Yeah to that, I need you to lean in

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Speaker 1: quite like lean in?

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Speaker 2: Are we?

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Speaker 3: I mean? If we're slowing down on the work phrases?

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Speaker 3: Should we run through some of the some of the

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Speaker 3: ones we were saying during the song which weren't work.

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Speaker 2: Face just be your favorite phrase.

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Speaker 1: Ones that are printed on the back of the bee

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Speaker 1: candy dar one somewhere we have unpredictable fun now that

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Speaker 1: cats me. It's the new buzz and Breakfast.

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Speaker 2: We do sits in Whippa with Kate Ritchie is a

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Speaker 2: Nova podcast walk great shows like this.

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Speaker 3: Download the Nova Player, the App Store or Google Play.