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Define: "Dogfooding"
What HR thinks it means:
A company using its own products to test and promote them.
What it actually means:
"Forcing employees to suffer through our own buggy beta software."
Use it in a meeting:
"We are dogfooding our own security software, which neatly explains why half the company hasn't been able to log in since Tuesday."
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