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    'Logistics'
    OK so it was a bit trendy 20 years ago but now every ****** lorry has Logistics emblazoned on its sides.

    #2
    Engage(d)

    Overused and meaningless. At one point it meant you were either getting married or else you were locked in the loo.

    Now everyone engages with everyone else. You don't have a conversation or meeting now - you engage with a person(s).

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      #3
      Gordon and Brown (when used together)
      "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


      Thomas Jefferson

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        #4
        tax
        ir35

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          #5
          Pay up
          Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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            #6
            "Resource" meaning "person". "FTE" is almost but not quite as bad.

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              #7
              Originally posted by maximus
              'Logistics'
              OK so it was a bit trendy 20 years ago but now every ****** lorry has Logistics emblazoned on its sides.
              Well what the heck do you think they should put on there.

              "We move your tulip for a fee".

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                #8
                Fairness
                Inclusive
                Multiculturalism


                Infact, all the New Labour buzzwords that mean tulip.

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                  #9
                  Add 'Post-Slavery' to that list, DP...

                  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6453973.stm



                  If you are white, feel the guilt, the shame... YOU are responsible for crimes committed by non whites...
                  Vieze Oude Man

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by maximus
                    'Logistics'
                    OK so it was a bit trendy 20 years ago but now every ****** lorry has Logistics emblazoned on its sides.
                    'touch-base' is my absolute pet hate. If any word or phrase should be included in the Dictionary of Pretentious Corporate Wank-Speak, that's gotta be the one.

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