Employee gets caught after building an app to track how many times his coworkers say “circling back” in meetings – FAIL Blog

“[Today I messed up] by building an app to track how many times my coworkers say ‘circling back’ in meetings. Now the whole office uses it.

So there is a guy at work. Let’s call him K.

K says ‘circling back’ constantly in every meeting. sometimes twice in the same sentence. ‘So just circling back on that, before we circle back to the main point.’ I started noticing it maybe 4 months ago, and now I cannot unhear it. It has ruined meetings for me entirely

So, as a joke, purely for my own amusement, I vibe-coded a mini wabi app in 10 mins. Every time K says ‘circling back,’ I tap the screen. It tracks daily counts, shows me a weekly graph, [and] gives me a personal best notification

I showed two colleagues

Mistake…