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Define: "Turnkey"
What HR thinks it means:
A product or service that is ready for immediate use.
What it actually means:
"A system that will require 6 months of custom integration by the engineering team to function at all."
Use it in a meeting:
"We were sold a turnkey solution that naturally required two dedicated consultants and six months of our lives just to turn it on."
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