Cliches driving me mad

I don't blog often about work but there's been lots of meetings I'm attending right now as we're being hit by a huge wave of redundancies. At each meeting, cliches are being rolled out, the most popular being "parking" an issue and "moving forwards" on it.

I'm not sure if I'm in a meeting or a faulty Toyota.

Comments

Steve said…
When they start imagineering and blu sky thinking then you'll know you're in deep do-do...
7:09 PM
Sunny Jim said…
Why do the drongoes say "going forward" when they mean "in the future". At least it's a way of them indicating to their audience that they're a complete waste of space.
12:23 PM
Tvor said…
To "Action" something. grrrr....
6:16 PM
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