> "at the end of the day" there are manager bullshit and verbal tics like the one you mentioned. I tend(ed) to use "long story short..." to force myself to sum

> "at the end of the day" there are manager bullshit and verbal tics like the one you mentioned. I tend(ed) to use "long story short..." to force myself to summarize, but when a colleague of mine started to use it over 3 times in a single sentence, I've since stopped using it.