Leveraging actionable vernacular
First of all, people in business need to quit using Corporate-Speak. No one should use verbs like ‘leverage’ or ‘action-item’ or ‘explore’. Say normal words like ‘use’ or ‘do’ or ‘think’.
On my way out of Jack in the Box today, I saw one of my archetypical Persons I Dislike. She was easily 300 pounds. She had on stretchy pants. She was driving a Yukon Denali XL. Her huge (230lbs.?) kids got in the car as they were complaining about the (”little”) portions at the aforementioned Jack-in-the-Box. She yelled at her kids, in public, in a southern accent, words which I shall not repeat here. They strapped their huge (m)asses in their bus of a vehicle and ended up in front of me at the stoplight. But a silly stoplight wasn’t enough to stop this woman. The light was red. She stopped. And then she made a left on a red (without signalling, to boot), across three lanes of traffic, prompting beeps from three layers of cars that had had green lights before they were eclipsed by this behemoth. What did she do? Flipped them the bird. Ah, America. I bet she was late for Ricki Lake. (why is it that this is the sort of person that always complains about what’s wrong with America? Ironic, really…)
