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TIFU by building an app to track how many time my coworkers says ‘circling back’ in meetings. Now whole office uses it

so there is a guy at work. lets 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, gives me a personal best notification

I showed two colleagues

mistake

they immediately wanted to use it too, i shared the link. Not a big deal right

within two days there were 9 of us silently tapping our phones every time K spoke. we have a group chat now. someone made a weekly leaderboard for highest count. someone else added a feature request for "to be honest" because apparently kate from finance says it 11 times a meeting and felt left out

Recently K said "circling back" 23 times in a 56 minute sync

we nearly lost it,, someone had to fake a coughing fit

the problem is i now look forward to meetings like genuinely. i check the group chat during calls. we celebrate new personal bests. K said "circling back" at 9:07am yesterday and i got three notifications within seconds

i built an app to cope with an annoying habit and accidentally made meetings the best part of my workday

K will never know.I feel both terrible and completely at peace with this

Would love to add screenshots but seems like this sub doesn’t allow that

TL;DR: Built an app-to count how many times my coworker says “circling back” in meeting and now while office uses it and it became a hot topic

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