To expand on Brendan's 'thinking outside the box'...Alan Partridge-style Buzzword Bingo at work. OK, so may of us work in corporate environments, but that doesn't mean you can gad about using phrases like 'lets run that up the flagpole'/'lets get all our ducks in a line'/'going forward'/any kind of 'heads up'...the list goes on. A new one I heard recently was a colleague's boss who told him 'lets not go about blamestorming'. You wouldn't use any of this utter tripe in normal conversation, so why at work? It really does make most sane people want to chuck their Blackberry at your face.