Saying "hop on a call" offends the hell out of me

My man TKaps and I, back in the halcyon days of ESPN, used to have a joke about the word "chat." The joke wasn't that funny, but here goes: a "chat" should be a nice thing, right? Like if your grandmother came to you and wanted to have a chat, that would be some warm fuzzy type stuff, no? But at ESPN, when a supervisor says they want to "have a chat," i…