Two of my least favorites:
Outplaced: A 'Human Resources' manager once told me we had to take a certain series of actions before an employee could be "outplaced". I asked her if that meant what I thought it meant. She responded, "what do you think it means?" I replies with a group of phrases which included, "fixed, axed, ****canned, terminated..."
Getting on the bus: There was a major push from the company's system's manager to replace the three computer systems in production, sales and personnel with one integrated system. There were a number of us who could see the shortcuts, limitations and the gaps in the system which had been tested and was going live in a week or two. We were dragged into a meeting and told we 'had to get on the bus' because that is where the company was going. Our response was we didn't mind going anywhere, but the system as it stood was going to crash and should be held up until it would operate at least as well as what we had.
The 'Go Live' date hit and the 'bus' hit a wall. It was everything the hype of Y2K failed to produce, an expensive, time wasting disaster.
A few weeks later, when the software had been de-bugged, we were gathered for another pep-talk. When the 'get on the bus' line was trotted out again, I responded that we had all been on the bus the last time, it had crashed and, frankly, we were a bit leary of getting back on.
I think I was viewed as being a negative influence after that.
Les