New bull: Intertwingled

Intertwingled:1. A portmanteau of intertwined and intermingled, coined by Ted Nelson to describe the way information is presented on the web. 2. Usable in pretty much any situation, as in “Bollocks, the cables under my desk are totally intertwingled.”

New bull: Commercial wife-beating

Commercial wife-beating: 1. Constantly beating up a supplier who offers no resistance. 2. Disgraceful one-sided business relationship in which a dominant partner screws the other party on every dimension – price, service levels, professional intimidation, and personal abuse. (see BOHICA; Partners; 60:50 relationship, this is the perfect)

New bull: Moofing

Moofing: 1. Working out of the office. 2. Multi-angled car crash of the words mobile, out of office, and working on the hoof; echoes of goofing and spoofing; possibly not working at all.

Budget Day Bull Special

Fiscal juggling: 1. Moving money from one part of the financial year to another. 2. Incessant gerrymandering of spreadsheets to confuse anyone and everyone; legerdemain, literally lightness of hand; adding costs to reduce profit; removing costs to increase profit; changing financial years; shifting from quarters to tertials or vice versa; deliberately generating multi-sheet spreadsheets with hidden layers in order to obfuscate; pursuing opacity at all costs; using arcane financial language to disguise the working reality; all in all, a huge battery of techniques to prevent anyone understanding the monetary truth. (see Above board; Aims; Balloon has gone up, the; Baseline; BHAG; Black arts; Bottom line; Calibrate; Cook the books; Crunch the numbers; Markers, put some____down; Massage the numbers; Numbers, the; Obfuscate; Quantitative easing; Quarter; Re-baselining; Tertial)

Medical shocker

“Going forward, lessons have been learned from the systemic failures which show the hospital unfit for purpose. We have convened a special exploratory group to undertake a full and comprehensive reorganisation of procedures and structures.