The Crossdresser’s Workplace Phrasebook — Part 5.

Part 5. (Find part 1 here).

The following day we had the ‘creative meeting’, a weekly event in which the creative department ran out a series of their latest ideas for clients in front of us humble functionaries of the company.

In the creative meeting I’d counted no less than a dozen examples of phrases that as far as I could tell were entirely meaningless.

These were phrases tossed into conversation, or worse — campaigns — that had absolutely no coherent meaning. It was like listening to a Trump supporter.

“The client’s downloaded this project to us,” said Martin of one particular direct mail campaign.

I cut in, “You mean he’s asked us to do it?”

Martin paused, all eyes in the meeting turning to me. “That’s what I just said.”

“Oh,” I replied.

“We’ve got the bandwidth, right?” he went on.

Several people around the table nodded.

“We need more face time in the target market. If we’re going to get onto the bleeding edge of this thing we’re going to need to upsize and onboard some new talent,” he went on.

I farted, then scowled at Brenda. People around the table followed my example and looked awkwardly at…