Do you know what color your parachute is? How about who moved your cheese? Do you even care? Regardless of where you sit in the corporate chain, it’s little idioms and terminology like that which gets stuck infiltrating your life and vocabulary. It’s high time that the regular cubical dweller gets to make up their own TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) and terminology to try out-business-speak management.

• Building X: A designation given to indicate that the meeting will be held off campus, and generally will include alcohol. “X” is just a placeholder here which is at least one greater than the number of buildings on the corporate campus. For example, if there are four buildings, than the restaurant/bar down the road is referenced as Building 5. Building X can be used to define multiple locations with the same name.
• Content Jack: To acquire web assets for use on one’s own site from another source by importing it and throwing away the content that does not apply.
• Misovercomplicate: Is your meeting stuck running in circles answering questions with more questions all while making a simple task or concept more difficult than it needs to be? If so, then this is the term for you.
• Mutually Oxymoronic: A group of things that does not form a group.
• Sustainovate: An actual business term meaning new and innovative ways to help improve sustainability within the companies ways of working.