- conveyor-belt consultancy
- no drive
- feeling like I work for a living
- sand in your underpants
- ‘no you can’t’
- talking in my sleep
- pointless meetings
- bad hair
- chinese whispers
- the ego has landed
- ‘I am a rock, I am an island’
- a glass ceiling
- undercurrents
- ivory towers
- ‘poor me’
- trying too hard
- not trying at all
- second best
- living in a box
- institutionalized thinking
- carrying people who simply won’t try
- at any price
- thinking lad culture is funny, clever and/or impressive
- pr puffery
- bad air
- apathy
- ‘that’ll do’
- unreliability
- taking things at face value
- blue for boys, pink for girls
- working in a sweatshop because its cool/good for me
- ‘does this perfume make me look fat?’
- slack service
- lukewarm
- being everybody’s best friend
- living in people’s pockets
- hidden agendas
