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Define: "Drink from the firehose"
What HR thinks it means:
To be overwhelmed by a massive amount of information at once.
What it actually means:
"Our onboarding process is non-existent, so here is a chaotic dump of unorganized documentation. Good luck."
Use it in a meeting:
"New hires are expected to drink from the firehose, which translates to reading 400 pages of outdated Confluence wikis while openly weeping."
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