Bonuses may be disguised in corporate jargon as incentive or variable pay, but the concept is an old one: paying employees for performance.

Some are victims of late-1980's economics: working people who got laid off when their employers, in the current corporate jargon, "downsized" their staffs or who were left permanently in the cold when companies closed.

But the appeal of "Dingo" isn't visual; it's verbal, a delicious bricolage of corporate jargon and superhero clichés.

That's the curious thing about corporate jargon - everyone deplores it, but nobody can resist it.

Although marred by an abrupt ending, the film makes some nasty points about big business, corrupt government, overseas development, slave labor and corporate jargon, which the robots parrot.

This system, having been adopted in the early 2000s has now been abolished, after proving unpopular with staff and drawing the criticism of simply being corporate jargon.

The minds behind Mule Design Studio have channeled their rage against corporate jargon into the creation of a delightfully hostile (and vulgar) translation device called "Unsuck It."

His annoying corporate jargon ("core business," "thinking outside the box," "sustainable competitive advantage") made reporters despair.

But that's corporate jargon right now, and the Knicks are corporate.

In corporate jargon, he had just said, "Eat your heart out, sweetheart.