An employer sometimes pulls aside a problem employee with, “We need to talk.”
 
“Funny how they say we need to talk when they really mean you need to listen” is a one-line saying that was posted on Twitter by n2o‏ on September 17, 2015.
 
 
Twitter 
n2o‏
@1evilidiot
Funny how they say we need to talk when they really mean you need to listen.
8:59 PM - 17 Sep 2015
 
Twitter
¹†µΠµ‏
@I_am_itunu
Funny how Parents they say we need to talk when
they really mean you need to listen.
12:28 AM - 18 Sep 2015
 
SOH Joker
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Funny how they say we need to talk when they really mean you need to listen.
 
Chiriquí Chatter
Funny how they say we need to talk when they really mean you need to listen.
December 9, 2015
   
3 October 2016, Lima (OH) News, Jim Krumel column:
PARTING SHOT: Funny how they say we need to talk when they really mean you need to listen.
 
Twitter,
Unfunny Dad‏
@RealUnfunnyDad
Funny how they say we need to talk when they really mean you need to listen.
4:27 AM - 26 Apr 2017
 
Twitter
Jitendra Raghav‏
@jitendra_raghav
Funny how they say we need to talk when they really mean you need to listen.
#TuesdayThoughts
11:50 PM - 3 Jul 2017