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Office anthropology™


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Work anthropology

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Wroot /ruːt/ (n.) A short little berk who thinks that by pulling on his pipe and gazing shrewdly at you he will give the impression that he is infinitely wise and 5 ft 11 in.

—Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. The Meaning of Liff

Anything calculated to make you seem clever, wise and six-foot tall. Jargon, buzzwords, legalese: that kind of thing. It is funny how the same people who complain about legalese on LinkedIn love to relentlessly leverage the value-chain, if you catch my drift.

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