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(1). Something you always end up opening just by asking a simple question. I mean, how were you supposed to know that Rick’s wife wore an eye patch? You didn’t even know Rick was married!
“Look, Steve … I don’t want to open up a can of worms here, but shouldn’t we be paying taxes on the money we’re making?”
(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!”
(1). To subtly manipulate figures to produce a more favorable outcome.
“Well, Nick, I’m not going to lie. You’re going to owe a ton of taxes this year. Let me massage the data a bit to see if we can find a more efficient way to use some of those ‘business expenses’.”
