I’m not really a big fan of GQ, but I’ve been getting a subscription because Cargo went under and they switched it to GQ. Whatever…I just loved this article written by Cecil Donahue about office lingo. The quote below says a lot:
“Think outside the box.” This is the classic example of unintended corporate irony: invoking a wretched cliche in a vain attempt to inspire creativity. the guy who utters this crap has never actually set foot outside the box. He would not, in fact, know a triangle if it stabbed him in the eye. As a highly respected company square he is skilled in the art of squeezing a few more pounds of sh** into said box and declaring that he’s created “an expanded fecal quadrilateral.”
