The Corporate Bullshit Detector B - C

Balancing home and work - There’s bound to be one smug woman in your office who claims to have a recently thawed spinach lasagne or a pair of wet children’s pants in their bag. Where are they from - Planet Madonna?

Benchmark - If your brilliant, new state-of-the-art product can’t be benchmarked or compared with what somebody did last year in Basingstoke, you might as well forget it.

Competencies - Out go those long job histories and lists of hobbies. In come those traits and behaviours that prove our capabilities and even suggest we’re vaguely competent. Apparently.

Core worker - Somebody they can’t sack because they saw what the MD was doing on the photocopier at the last Christmas party.

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