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40 Hours: A Naturalist's Field Guide to the Office Dialect

40 Hours: A Naturalist's Field Guide to the Office Dialect

The Institute for Corporate Dialectology

Paperback

Series: Field Guide, Book 2

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ISBN13: 9798185724712
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Your coworker is speaking a language you do not understand.

Somewhere between let's circle back and per my last email, the office stopped speaking English. This field guide translates it: 40 specimens of corporate jargon, each documented like wildlife, with its habitat, a real overheard example, its true meaning, and precise instructions for what to do about it. (Usually: survive.)

Prepared with a completely straight face by the (entirely fictional) Institute for Corporate Dialectology, it's part dictionary, part comedy, and one hundred percent the funniest thing on anyone's desk.

Inside you'll finally decode synergy, low-hanging fruit, touch base, deep dive, bandwidth, move the needle, quiet quitting, and dozens more, building to a grand finale on page 40: the standard 40-hour week, which the Institute has studied for decades and found to mean, officially, nothing.

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