NATIONAL CLICHE DAY!

No, this isn't another diatribe about the Democrats- holster that sidearm, for Pete's sake! In a moment of weakness, I composed a drinking game this morning to commemorate this national day of banality:

It’s National Cliché Day!
Here’s a cool office drinking game I made up- as you read this aloud, everyone takes a drink when they recognize a cliché. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did making it up. And don’t drive after playing!

Good morning

I hope everyone is firing on all cylinders this early in the morning. As we move forward, it is important for us all to recognize that the ball is in your court now. We need to recognize that we all need to be on the bus with the changes going on in the business world. While there has been a large amount of turmoil around us, we need to see the big picture. This means getting our arms around the problems facing us while yet thinking outside the box. A hands on approach is not enough to knock the ball out of the park anymore.

Recent changes in personnel in the company, while painful, have been necessary to wipe the slate clean and allow us as a company to do more than pick the low hanging fruit. We have to run lean and mean, as survival of the fittest is imperative. It has been necessary for a few members to take one for the team, but please remember, all’s well that ends well, and hope springs eternal, even for those long in the tooth or cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel. We did not want to kill one and scare the rest, as has been bandied about, either.

To this end, management has been circling at thirty thousand feet, not swimming with the sharks, as has been rumored. The strategic moves we have recently made will grow the company by using a new paradigm. The synergy of our two companies’ core competences will help us shut out the competition. This was not a shotgun wedding of our two companies, or a wet dream, as some may have characterized it.

We need employee buy-in to make this work, and to refer to it as drinking the Kool-Aid is not helpful. A boy howdy attitude will take you far in this new venture. Remember, there is no “I” in team. You play for the name on the front of your jersey, not the one on the back.
So please take this time to reflect on your part in all this. And if you are still employed here at Five O’clock, congratulations!

(Any resemblance to any company, real or virtual is unintentional, no employees were harmed in the writing of this, offer not valid in Minnesota and Illinois)

There it is! If you can still walk after this, you must be from Pembina County! Tell me how many cliches YOU found..