I have been associated with the corporate world for two years. I would like to say that the journey has been very fulfilling and challenging. Yes, I would have loved to say that and mean it. Except, I can’t and I won’t. But sometimes I feel, people unfairly criticize us corporates (can I call myself that, frankly am not too comfortable, but for the good of humor self deprecation gets a nod) and their better-than-you demeanor. Yes, we have our ways of smugly patronizing the ‘lesser’ people, don’t tell me you haven’t done it. Yes, we have our ways of pretentiously looking at our [insert your Smartphone]’s during grocery shopping. Yes, we have our ways of giving fancy names for pointless meetings. While at it, let me also mention our ways of pulling out that fake accent once in a while. We have our weakness, but we are, in most cases, not evil. All you have to actually do is talk to us for a little while and you’ll realize most of us have no clue what we are talking about. We are trained to be so. No logical questions please, as Dilbert says all such questions will be treated as insubordination. We use the same hackneyed phrases our management uses, we fill our talks with these phrases. Sometimes to confuse the person we are talking to and hide the fact that we are not learnt enough to make a statement and stand by it. Sometimes we use these phrases because they sound very ‘corporatish’ and they make us feel important. Let us examine some of these corporate clichés and maybe ridicule them a little bit.

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