Everyone hates corporate buzzwords and boardroom slang. Everyone. Even newborn infants, yet to glimpse the world for the first time or hear anything other than the beating of their mother’s heart are filled with a primal, instinctive dread at the very thought of modern business phrasiology. It is an unspeakable horror, more twisted and vile than anything described in the pages of H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Cthulhu’ mythos.
By far the worst however, by several orders of ghastly magnitude, is the term “singing from the same hymn sheet“. Derived from the slightly less foul but equally forbidden “reading from the same page”, this sickening utterance not only fills the meeting rooms of the English speaking world like a deafening, crackling static, but by introducing hymn sheets to the fray drags Christianity into the fucking equation. Bloody Christianity.
While contemplating this term and the various methods I would employ to dismember any soul foolish enough to use it in my presence, it occurred to me that it would offend me far less if there were a variety of multi-faith equivalents that could be used by, for example, our Islamic chums or those nice Buddhists.
Some examples:
Take note, international people of business. Take note, or I will punch your stupid heads off.
My favourite version of this phrase is, “Tipping the same velvet”.
“Wearing out the same Sugar Rush DVD”
Series one or two?
Good God (big G), I’ve also lamented corporate cliche-speak. It’s got to be worse here in the States than it is there in the British England Kingdom.
Do you have, “I’ll run it on over tomorrow,” for instance? Or, “Touch base with me tomorrow?” Or, “Throw it all against the wall to see what sticks?”
Fucking corporate fucks. God how I hate the ubiquity of their mindless cubicle-creature lingo.
Anyhow, nice place you got here. I might have to stop in from time to time.
Cheers,
-Both