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(1). When you sit down with a stockbroker to see if you can glom onto his book of business (or … ahem! … “look for potential synergies“).
“So, I went through a little hand-to-hand combat with Ken and I think we were able to identify a couple of accounts where we could be helpful. He wants us to do it at no charge, of course, which may be a bit of a challenge.”
(1). An annoying, and grammatically incorrect, segue used to simultaneously sound like you were paying attention in a meeting and stroke your boss’ ego by agreeing with, or basically repeating, what they’ve just said – before adding your own idea gem.
“To Jesse’s point, I think it’s a great idea to spend the event budget on those adorable dancing dogs; and we should definitely have them incorporate our logo into their choreography.”
Props to Marlayna R. for the submission.
(1). An emergency, last resort move that no one wants to do, but everyone would do if the alternative is fulfilling French fry orders.
“Yeah, so, it looks like the roll out of the new system didn’t work and none of our fixes … umm … fixed it. I suppose we could turn it off and then back on again. It’s kind of a break-glass solution, but it might work.”
