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There are probably quite a few of you reading this who’ve never experienced the tedium of an office meeting. If so, you’ve seriously missed nothing. It’s just like on the TV; some self-important stuffed shirt expounding to all and sundry his or her grand visions for the future of the company, while everyone else wishes for the sweet release of death. All this would be bearable if not for the cofee – dear God, the coffee – and the seemingly bottomless font of crass neologisms that is business-speak. The first few times you hear a particular gem, it’s kind of fun, in a perverse way. Once you’ve cottoned on to whatever the hell it is they’re on about you can have fun watching others try to do the same.