"Hi, this is Tracy at the agency, I just wanted to reach out to you and find out how the new job is going."

OK, I realize I've been out of circulation for a while.

But so help me. I will officially gag if I hear one more person in the office world talk about "reaching out" to me as if I were a wayward teenager.

Is this some new buzzphrase that's going around? I am deeply and desperately sick of it.