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Bread and Butter
(1). A term used to describe a low-margin business unit (see keep the lights on) which will never, ever be a major profit center, resulting in mediocre pay for its staff, further resulting in mediocre staff.
“Urinal-mint manufacturing is a bread and butter business, people. We may not be flashy, but we’ll always be able to say that business doesn’t stink.”
Corporate Citizen
(1). Something your company claims to be after paying someone to plant a few trees in Paraguay, despite the fact that they continue to dump gallons of caustic chemicals into the canal behind that plant of theirs in New Jersey.
“As you all know, we strive to be a good corporate citizen, which is why we are requiring all of you to commute to work in Chevy Volts. I, of course, will continue to commute in my G IV.”