(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)

  • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    99 months ago

    Yea, but that picture doesn’t convey the thumping techno your cubeighbor has running constantly because I’ve got ADHD and that shit is serenity for me.

    • @isles@lemmy.world
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      59 months ago

      My first full-time job, I had the Creative Zen MP3 player, boasting 14 hours of playback and a gigabytes of storage. Looking back, the only way I made it through successfully was that device. And Napster et al. I’m sure. Long live thumping beats! (Thank you for listening to my talk).