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Generica
- the suburban squalour of America - fast food joints, strip
malls, etc - that looks exactly the same, no matter where you
are. Probaby coined by Douglas Coupland.
Garden
leave - Paid cooling off period, typically three months,
that your contract stipulates you cannot work before starting
a new job. Used by city firms to prevent people walking straight
into a new job with hot information.
Glasgow
salad - Chips
Glocalisation
- the natural end product of trying to 'think global and act
local'. In practice often means window dressing your outlets
to look like the real local businesses whose bankruptcy your
chain's arrival will cause.
Guilt-free Leave - Company policy that tells staff not to
bring work with them on their holidays and not to take phones
lap-tops, etc.
Gung holier than thou/ Gung holiness - An unquestioning
sense of moral right allied to a martial attitude and plenty
of military hardware.
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