Everyday Office Jargon · Managing Director level

"Shit hit the fan"

"Shit hit the fan" means a situation has suddenly deteriorated, triggering a crisis that now requires urgent attention from multiple people.

Say this instead: everything fell apart

How "Shit hit the fan" shows up at work

Reserved for genuine emergencies, or at least what feels like one at the time. It appears in war-room Slack channels, retrospective calls, and the occasional all-hands. Its presence in a message is itself a signal to stop whatever you were doing.

Buzzword

Everything was fine until the shit hit the fan with the production deployment last night.

Plain English

Everything was fine until the production deployment collapsed into a crisis last night.

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