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(1). The tough love statement you need to tell your client when they refuse to believe that nobody likes their brand, company, or product.
“Listen Mike, it doesn’t matter how many times you say “everyone loves our manure scented candles” and “they smell like nature”, it just isn’t true. Your baby is ugly. Manandles stink, literally.”
(1). A way to signal to everyone in the meeting that this is the only agenda item you want to talk about and that all of the other stuff is meaningless to you.
“Okay, team, well, first and foremost, I want to address 2012 compensation. I understand many of you may have booked vacations for after the New Year…well, you might want to rethink those plans for now…”
Props to Jerry G. for the submission.
(1). Laying off employees to balance the budget (see also RIF-ed).
“We had to right-size our company last month by about 20%.”
Props to RC Lations for the submission.
