(Business people) speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them - every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse. -William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style)

  • CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Wait they got monitors? I always had to salvage what I could for my own private junk pile or steal it from somebody when they left the company. And a desktop PC? Never in my life it’s always fucking laptops because they want to make sure I can work from anywhere