I'm a "boomer", love the younger people I get to work with...I think we all have a phrase, or more that irritate us. What is important is to know that we own that irritation and it really hasn't anything to do with the people, or even the phrase. I don't like "it is what it is"....because, I decided, sometimes it Shouldn't be and something needs to be done....I see it as a way of avoiding a discussion. But then, there are times a discussion is better left for another time....My mother used to hate me saying "pissed" or "pisser"....I can guess why, but she liked "hassle"... You mention "I have no sympathy for them"...could that be the issue? Your feelings...