Be careful how you use them!
Whenever someone talks about how they "service" a client rather than "serve" them or "provide service to" them, I get rather graphic images of stud service. Not good. The farm kid in me has some rather good visuals! As I recalled, "service" is a noun rather than a verb, but my OCD side did have to go check the
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Working here I always get calls where folks want to cancel their "prescription."
uhhh, maybe you should keep the prescription and just cancel your paper... sigh.
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Later I worked for another company that believed "architect" was a verb. With that company, the beginning of the development cycle when we were busy "architecting the solution" was the painful part.
Does bleeding from the eyeballs count for stigmata? If so, I probably qualified while I worked for those companies (both Fortune 20, btw). Otherwise, well, there was kind of a stigma attached to being a person who twitched violently when major corporate buzzwords were used.
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