Word meaning annoyingly ubiquitous or pithy and annoying?

I'm trying to think of a word that is something along the lines of annoying and ubiquitous or pithy and annoying.

Here is an example context:

Don’t you just hate it when you go to IT and you hear the same old [word] question: “Have you tried restarting your machine?”

Recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Solution 1:

This is often referred to as a hackneyed phrase. Meaning overworked and tired.

It comes from the time when the horses that pulled Hackney Carriages were worked to death without any thought for their welfare. The word is still in common use to describe anything repeated ad nauseam and "done to death".

Solution 2:

Doesn't it infuriate you when you visit an IT department and all you hear is the same old, "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" platitude?

Solution 3:

I propose same old refrain. Merriam-Webster defines refrain as "a comment or statement that is often repeated."

For example:

Don’t you just hate it when you go to IT and you hear the same old refrain: “Please try restarting your machine”?

(Here I changed the quote from a question to the imperative form, since a question doesn't seem to count as a proper example of a refrain.)

In the example context, I think the "annoying" part is implicit. In other situations it might be desirable to clarify it by writing "the same annoying old refrain" (or simply "the annoying old refrain", "the same annoying refrain", or "the annoying refrain"). In general, "same old refrain" seems to already have slightly negative connotations even without being explicitly described as annoying.