I was having this conversation with someone recently. They said "1st world problems." So....I asked what it meant, because I pretty sure that is a fairly new saying. It's certainly not from my generation. Is it from the millennial generation? I don't like it. It feels derogatory. A put down.
Here's some ridiculous examples > http://www.huffingto..._b_4117701.html
I think this saying is the result of social media! 
Other sayings that bug me...
"it is what it is" - I used to hear this at work all the time. Sounds like an excuse from management and that they aint going to do nothing.
"whatever" - another way to discount the opinion of another
It seems to me that there are lots of sayings these days to talk down to others. When we discount another person's words/behavior, we are taking on the role of judge & jury without understanding their motivation and experience. It's hurtful.
So what sayings bug you? Oh dear, just realized, this topic. 1st world problems. 
I was having this conversation with someone recently. They said "1st world problems." So....I asked what it meant, because I pretty sure that is a fairly new saying. It's certainly not from my generation. Is it from the millennial generation? I don't like it. It feels derogatory. A put down.
Here's some ridiculous examples > http://www.huffingto..._b_4117701.html
I think this saying is the result of social media!
Other sayings that bug me...
"it is what it is" - I used to hear this at work all the time. Sounds like an excuse from management and that they aint going to do nothing.
"whatever" - another way to discount the opinion of another
It seems to me that there are lots of sayings these days to talk down to others. When we discount another person's words/behavior, we are taking on the role of judge & jury without understanding their motivation and experience. It's hurtful.
So what sayings bug you? Oh dear, just realized, this topic. 1st world problems.
I always hated "it is what it is" at work, along with the almost countless examples of jargon that managers and others dutifully learn and repeat. (A current favorite is using "ask" as a noun.) Where I work, they also refer to non-management employees as "resources". The work world is full of off-putting words and terms.
I rarely have conversations that aren't about something I'm doing at the moment, unless I'm talking with family, so I don't tend to hear annoying words and phrases directly. Typically l hear them on TV, or more commonly, I read them online. Either I have to shrug them off, or be permanently bugged, because the annoying words, the bad grammar and spelling, not to mention the thoughts that make me lose hope in society, are all over the place.
I've noticed at least a couple of expressions that have been created or resurrected by the Millennial generation, then become adopted by older generations as well. Only one occurs to me now: "over the moon". I'm not sure if this has been resurrected by the younger generation, or if I have simply been oblivious to other people using it all along. But no one I knew (I'm age 55) ever used that term growing up, and it seemed like an archaic term that my grandparents might have once used. But now I see interviews on TV in which bubbly young women (mostly) and men are "over the moon" about something, and it's become commonplace enough so that older people are using it as well. But I don't think they were using the phrase until they heard younger people using it.
I have a feeling that I would be cringing left and right if I were ever put into an office full of twenty-somethings for a week: it would be a perfect storm of work jargon and Millennial terms.
An expression that has been overused for a while now is "at the end of the day". If you watch any Reality TV show, and need a drinking game, use that one as your key phrase, and you'll be kept plenty busy raising your glass. (Not that I play drinking games.)
(I hate text talk)
