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Define: "Peel the onion"
What HR thinks it means:
To examine a problem in detail by looking at its underlying layers.
What it actually means:
"Making a simple issue exponentially more complicated until everyone in the room wants to cry."
Use it in a meeting:
"We started to peel the onion on the legacy codebase and immediately regretted uncovering five undocumented workarounds holding the system together."
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Next time someone says "Peel the onion" in a meeting, track exactly how much company money they just wasted. Play Buzzword Bingo, generate a waste invoice, and stop the bleeding.
