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Define: "Going forward"
What HR thinks it means:
A transition phrase indicating a new process or expectation for the future.
What it actually means:
"Do not ever do what you just did again."
Use it in a meeting:
"Going forward, please refrain from CCing the entire department every time the staging environment crashes."
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