• you are your adjectives

    original publish date: 16th February, 2010

    decades on …

    How did I think that ‘oodles’ was the problem here?

    How about the framing of the redundancies as being ‘incurred’ like they’re spectators in the process?

    Pisses me off, oodles.

    transcript

    FTE #1: As part of the restructure, we will likely incur a number of redundancies.

    FTE #2: How many exactly?

    FTE #1: We don’t know the exact figure, but it’s likely to be oodles.

    Caption: Inappropriate language doesn’t end at swearing.