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Define: "Band-aid solution"
What HR thinks it means:
A temporary fix to a problem that does not address the root cause.
What it actually means:
"A permanent piece of our critical infrastructure."
Use it in a meeting:
"Restarting the web server every four hours via a cron job is a band-aid solution that is now officially documented as standard operating procedure."
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