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I despise cutesy terms for going to the bathroom. "I have to see a man about a horse" is one that my teachers used in school that made me want to kick something.
I think most of us could go off on corporate lingo. When I worked for Dish Network, if I made a grievous mistake on a call, I showed up on the "Opportunity Report." If I called in sick, it was an "incident." "Flexible scheduling" meant "you'll be working some time between 8am and midnight." At one point, they decided to seat the call center on a first-come, first-serve basis every day, in effect denying their employees permanent desk locations. They called this "streamlined seating" (and we called it "my employer is too cheap to give me a wall to hang pictures on"). When someone got fired, they "left to pursue other opportunities." I could go on and on.
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