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corporate refugee

It is said of someone that has been downsized, displaced or severed from a long time corporate career.
Most of the time this results in the loss of stability, identity, structure and community.
One morning during the summer of 2002 I was having coffee with a Director of HR. We were friends, so it was nothing out of the ordinary. Out of the blue he said to me, "We need to find you another job!" That was the beginning of the end of my decades long career with a large corporation and the beginning of a very painful journey as another corporate refugee.
by Victor Pino September 25, 2007
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Corporate Dump

The act of defecation at work without clocking out or waiting for a lunch break.
Joe likes to take corporate dumps because it's far more satisfying to crap while getting paid.
by sputza December 9, 2008
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Corporate Fisting

v. When a corporation screws people - shareholders, employees, other companies - over at an extreme level.
Sue's company sat on stock options under some pretext, then laid off everyone at her location once the stock price had crashed. Then they only gave the minimum severance, and cut out all bonuses. The company does it all the time - it is the corporate fisting champ.
by Seb13 February 5, 2009
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Corporate Couple

An interracial couple made up of an East Asian woman (Chinese, Thai, Korean, etc. Not Pakistani, Indian, etc.), and a Caucasian male.

Tend to be white collar professionals, and most common in urban areas.

Basically this is due to cultural preferences. Culturally, Asian women like the traits of stability and reliability. So more often then not, these men cannot be classified as "bad boys".

White men like slim, cute women. Many also have a raging case of "Yellow Fever" (but this is not a prerequisite).
Yeah Corporate Couples are very common in this city.
by tacomalo June 12, 2010
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climb the corporate ladder

To move up in the hierarchy of a corporation.

A 'ladder' is a device with steps used to 'climb' (or move) up and down, so the 'corporate ladder' is the series of steps people go through as they gain more power in a corporation and 'rise to the top' - from file clerk up to president.
You have to work very hard if you want to climb the corporate ladder.
by VAKI5 May 14, 2005
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corporation

Something that doesn't really need to be greedy, but in reality, is.

CEOs in America make thousands of times more than their employees. In Britain, they only make about six times as much.

See that CD you just bought for $15? It cost about 1 cent to make it. How much does the artist get? About 50 cents or less per CD. How much goes into the laborers that made the CD? Well, seeing that it was either made by machines or minimum-wage workers (to assemble the case), the electricity/labor cost per CD is probably 5-10 cents. Let's round up and say it's a dollar total. So where's the rest go? Into the corporation.

The Rock Against Bush CD cost $7 (if you buy it directly from the producer). That's less than half the price of a typical CD. That shows that it is possible to have cheap CDs.

An ideal corporation always puts its employees before its executive office and always puts its consumers before its profit. But of course, none of this happens. We see people get laid off so that the exectuive's stock can go up a half of a point. We see goods that cost a dollar to make being sold for twenty. We see them exploiting the children of third-world countries.

Don't give me crap about how they want the job. It's exploiting, regardless of whether they want it or not. Since when do Americans deserve more rights than Africans or Chinese?

Oh, and corporations basically have the government and media in its pocket. Corporations buy the presidency through donations. Enron donated $114,752 to the Republicans and $102,050 to the Democrats. Then, when they're elected, the do whatever the corporation wants. Oh, and they control the media too. Microsoft controls NBC, Fox controls Fox news, etc. Liberal media my ass. It's not a liberal media, it's not a conservative media. It's a profiteer media. Meaning, anything that will get them a profit, they will report.
Damn, I hate those money-mongering corporations. It's a pity no one can do jack shit about them though.
by DrIdiot June 28, 2004
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something corporate

fucking good band

DOWNLOAD:
* I wanna save you
* You're gone
* If you see Jordan
hey........this is some good shit
by cilla....yes....bring it March 1, 2004
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