Corporate Life
The corporate worker's preferred fuel source that may cause heart palpatations if consumed in large quantities.
What is coffee?
The two very similar words you have to double check the meaning of before you use it in a sentence.
What is effect and affect?
Until its historic renaming in 2022 to better reflect its values of inclusion and reconciliation, TMU was known by this name.
What is Ryerson University?
This 3-letter acronym is code for a strict deadline, meaning your project must be complete by the "End Of Day."
What is EOD?
You should generally avoid sending emails with this word in the subject line unless the matter is truly time-sensitive.
What is "URGENT"?
Managers use this specific emoji to mean "Good job", while 20-somethings interpret it as passive-aggressive hositility.
What is the thumbs up emoji?
The name of a medical website that diagnoes your minor headache as a one-in-a-million tropical disease.
What is WebMD?
This official document is the academic record of all the courses a student has taken and the grades they earned.
What is a transcript?
When a team wants to experiment with a new idea in a small, controlled group before launching it company-wide, they are running this type of program.
What is a pilot program?
This email field should be used when you want recipients to receive a copy of the message but are not expected to take action.
What is CC (carbon copy)?
This terrifying status icon on Slack or Teams tells your entire company exactly how long you've been away from your keyboard scrolling TikToks.
What is the "Away" status?
The phrase you look up when its 2am and you have to be up at 6am despite having done it your whole life.
What is "How to fall asleep faster"?
This large, quad-like building is actually an interconnected square of four blocks surrounding a central courtyard, housing many of the university's original classrooms.
What is Kerr Hall?
This kitchen-appliance metaphor means to let an idea sit quietly in the background while you focus on more urgent tasks.
What is putting it on the "back burner"?
This phrase is often overused in professional emails and usually means "I'll get back to you later."
What is "I'll circle back"?
This 7-letter word describes a daily 15-minute meeting where everybody gives a quick update, historically done without sitting down to keep things moves.
What is a standup?
When you search a song title, you almost always add this 6-letter word at the end so you can sing along without looking like you're guessing.
What is "lyrics"?
If a professor has been granted this supreme academic designation, they hold a permanent post and cannot be fired without extraordinary just cause.
What is tenure?
Meaningful business growth relies heavily on this 3-letter acronym, which represents the critical, quantifiable metrics a company tracks to evaluate its success in reaching specific operational goals.
What is a KPI? (Key Performance Indicator)
A recruiter emails you on Monday asking for interview availability. Professional etiquette suggests responding within this many business hours whenever possible.
What is 24–48 hours?
"As previously mentioned" is corporate code for this blunt insult.
What is "Can you read?"
A term you add after your Google Search to find out that someone from 12 years ago happened to have the same problem as you.
What is Reddit?
Expanding outside of downtown Toronto, TMU launched a brand-new School of Medicine with its primary medical campus located in this GTA city.
What is Brampton?
This corporate phrase refers to leveraging existing capabilities, assets, or customer relationships to create greater value than the sum of their individual parts.
What is synergy?
This email field allows recipients to see who received the message while hiding the identities of other recipients - full term.
What is blind carbon copy (BCC)?