We were considering doing a live webcast for an event that the company was hosting. Our boss had us bring in a number of third-party companies to discuss the implementation.
In the grand tradition of all marketing people giving a presentation to tech people, the visitors whipped out their PowerPoint-laden laptop and started telling us about their partnerships and stock price. They definitely went overboard on the corpspeak, prompting Dave the Webmaster, who is a bomb diggetty gearhead, to say,
I see your lips moving, but all I hear is bzzzzzzz.
Marketing charm school doesn't prepare people for a reaction like that. | 
