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Another great example of the team approach: "Their stuff is gonna blow up big time. Let's just sit and wait for that train to pull out of the station.

"Oh great, now how the hell are we supposed to unscramble all the eggs?"

"I hate to be the pebble in your shoe, but I really need an answer on this."

Thankfully someone is always keeping the customer in mind: "...and what are we supposed to do at that point? Just tell the client to go pound sand?"

We had to go to a senior compliance officer for a really important decision on something, and my colleague thought it was best to clarify our required course of action by saying "So we came to you, Justice Scalia, for your opinion, and what you're telling us is that normally we shouldn't listen to Justice Ginsburg but this time we should?"

Somebody near me had obviously put in a pretty poor effort, because his boss said "We can't submit this. It's like we're bringing the car through the car wash and the scrubbers only work on one side."

"I only have about 30 minutes to come up with this answer, so if you could call him on the batphone and get back to me I would really appreciate it."

"Waiting for the results of the organizational efficiency review is like the summer movie previews. I'm anxiously waiting so I can get online at Fandango and buy tickets."

I don't know what any of it means, but a guy said into the phone "Hey, Bill. People have been doing a lot of talking just to make themselves heard. But rather than try to read the tea leaves, we thought we would go right to the soothsayer."

Overheard: “Well when we look at our QC process, the python had already swallowed a goat and now it’s taken down a pig. We need to move both the goat and the pig through the python.”

I tried to schedule a meeting with someone and they said "Sorry, I only have swiss cheese-like availability."

How one guy basically accused all his colleagues of being selfish and serving their own interests: "Look, everybody has this mound of snow in front of them. And all they know is they have to plow it. And they don't care that they're plowing in other people's driveways."

Overheard on conference call: "All we can do now is wait for the Titanic to break in half. Then we will throw all the life rafts we have in the water and redirect all the ocean liners and oil tankers in the area to come aid the cause."

Overheard on conference call: "At this point it's like we're playing the part of an old married couple. It's all 'you left the cap off the toothpaste again,' and 'you like ice in your drinks and so assume that I do too'."

Overheard: "I was going to make the point about the collateral and extension of funds but that would have been throwing a grenade into the dance party."

A guy near me made the following clear and concise point on conference call: "It's like Apollo 13. We don't know we're safe with certainty until they pop the lid off the space shuttle. And to be honest, we are past the slingshot around the moon. Some people still want to slingshot around the moon, but we are at the stage where the shuttle is on its way back in and we are just trying to make sure it doesn't burn up on re-entry."

My boss and I were strategizing before an important project kick-off call, and his advice was “Let’s avoid the herding cats mentality.”

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