(1). An exam or class taken in order to get some neat-sounding letters after your name.
“So I’m taking my 5th credentializer next week. They don’t make business cards wide enough for me!”
Credentializer
RANDOM LINGO
Move the Needle
(1). To positively impact or move a project forward, generally used when providing negative feedback in order to imply that someone is being neither impactful nor moving anything forward.
“Thanks for your input here, Tom. Unfortunately, I just don’t think adding more slides about how you are personally trying to go paperless is really going to move the needle on the firm’s cost-cutting project. I mean, really, you work in the mailroom!”
Fire Drill
(1). A last minute scramble to deal with an artificially-created emergency, usually occurring at approximately four o’clock on a Friday afternoon and whose successful completion results in zero thanks and several missed trains.