Let's Bitch

One thing I have noticed about working in the so-called “corporate world” is that businessmen love to use cliches, idioms, analogies, metaphors, similes… basically everything you tried to forget from high-school English class. And the higher up the company ladder they are, the more apt they are to use these. I don’t think I can sit through another meeting and hear these guys go back and forth with this crap and not get up and hurt someone. As soon as you stick a man in a suit and give him some important title suddenly his vocabulary is taken over with phrases like “low hanging fruit” and “skin the cat on both sides” and “soup-to-nuts”. During my meeting yesterday I decided to make a list of all of the ones I heard (and these are in addition to the ones I just listed):

- bread and butter

- in the wheelhouse

- beat a dead horse

- between a rock and a hard place

- pedal to the metal

- high on the hog

- cut the mustard

- you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette

- cash cow

- firing on all cylinders

I mean people say some of these things every now and then, but I swear to you this is all these entire meetings consist of. It is like some game I’m not aware of to see who can squeeze the most into the conversation. No actual work gets accomplished because no one is actually saying anything other than this crap!!! All of these phrases do not make you sound any more intelligent or important and they certainly don’t serve to get anything accomplished! ARGH!!! Just talk normally!!!!!