Irritating phrases

I think most corporate speak is just awful. Eg we'll put a pin in that or put it on the back burner.

One of least favourite is "for the needs of the business" which is loosely translated as "we can't really justify it and we don't care how it affects you.".

I think most corporate speak is just awful. Eg we'll put a pin in that or put it on the back burner.

One of least favourite is "for the needs of the business" which is loosely translated as "we can't really justify it and we don't care how it affects you.".

For 10 years, I worked somewhere much beloved of ye olde corporate speak - which they were also prone to issuing on corporate ceramic mugs - at nauseatingly regular intervals - which their "clear desk policy" then "encouraged" all employees to use for consumption of hot beverages (via the threat of non-corporate branded mugs found left in sight on desks overnight = consigned to the bin by the cleaning team by morning).

Ugh!

It was in the UK ...I thought the mug obsession all very odd.  Definitely a case of corporate overreach.

It piqued the sense of rebellion in me; so I got myself a mug, specially for the workplace ...with a chicken in pride of decoration.  No words of protest.  Just a chicken.

While I know some folk's non-corporate messaging mugs did hit the bin, as per policy, never to be seen again.  My mug was never so much as moved, never mind binned. 

I think this was the cleaning team's expression of silent solidarity (they probably thought it a bonkers policy too).

Decades later, my "chicken" mug still has a home on my kitchen mug shelf.

In celebrating an ongoing icon of; "rhubarb to corporate waffle": I am jolly well going to select my chicken mug for enjoying my coffee this morning! 

Put that in your "clear desk policy"!