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(1). How fancy, snooty business men concluded meetings in England in the mid 1800′s.
(2). How fancy, snooty bankers & Wall Street folk currently conclude meetings.
“Old business?! No? On to new business then..”
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(1). How fancy, snooty business men began meetings in England in the mid 1800′s.
(2). How fancy, snooty bankers & Wall Street folk currently begin meetings.
“Old business?! No? On to new business then..”
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(1). To split your people into departments in order to operate more efficiently…and to get the weirdos on your staff as far away from clients as possible.
“I think we’re big enough now that we should consider silo-ing off some special functions. Hey Sam, how would you like to run the new Copying and Printing Department?”
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(1). Endless workdays, typically experienced by junior attorneys, which ultimately lead to either (i) a large bonus based on billable hours, (ii) a speedy move to another industry, or (iii) death.
“Still keeping those lawyers’ hours, Bill? Well, I started a website a while back and now I make my own hours…in between visits to the unemployment office anyway.”
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(1). When a political candidate changes his mind on an issue. Because we should all be held to some stupid thing we said 20 years ago in a college paper about God or the environment. I don’t know about you guys, but most of my college papers were written in about 45 minutes the night before it was due. Who knows what I said?!
“This just goes to prove that the governor flip flops on the issues. How can we believe anything he says when we know that in 8th grade he believed the greatest threat to our nation was the New Kids on the Block? And now he says it’s Iran! Incredible!”
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