Corporate BS
January 27–Bschool: Business school; ground zero for the hatching and learning of vast amounts of corporate bs, which is then used to identify fellow Bschool attendees and make those who aren’t feel stupid or just confused; actually a very long, expensive cocktail party where people go to make connections and buy the right to say “At Stanford/Wharton/Princeton/Harvard . . .”
January 28–budget: A monetary sum allotted to a project, department, etc., that, if earmarked for something that’s actually needed, is a laughably unrealistic number; a figure that never can accommodate your raise, but always has room for the boss’s four-night stay at the Four Seasons Tokyo.
January 29–budget presentation: A formal explanation of a business unit’s financial needs that requires managers to justify their pathetic, unjustifiable empire for the coming fiscal year; a pretext for requiring junior staffers to work very late hours to compile, document, and artfully phrase (i.e., distort) data to support operating costs.
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