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I’ve only just discovered this thread, and reading it makes want to head straight to the I Hate thread.
Years back I worked in BT, and saw it change from a state-owned monopoly to what was essentially a private one. They started picking up on Americanisms by the bucketload and it was amusing to watch old-skool types trying to get to grips with it. I wasn’t old school, but I remember losing my rag in a training day when they tried to introduce the phrase ‘dumping the shunt’. It just meant passing the buck, as I recall, and I stood up and ranted about what a load of cock it all was. I then tried to get ‘taking one for the team’ rebranded as ‘sleeping on the wet patch’, but it never caught on.
I quit not long after that and have been a mechanical engineer ever since. Thank fuck.