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Define: "Herding cats"
What HR thinks it means:
Attempting to control or organize a group of inherently uncontrollable entities.
What it actually means:
"Trying to get three developers, a project manager, and a client on the same call."
Use it in a meeting:
"Getting the networking, security, and dev teams to agree on a unified IP schema is quite literally like herding cats through a minefield."
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