ABSTRACT
When faced with an attack of business bullshit, the knee-jerk reaction is to laugh. Making fun of management speak in one's own organisation is an increasingly common tactic. Humour is often an excellent weapon when faced with corporate bullshit. It can help to deflate the pretensions at the heart of much overblown management speak. Laughing at corporate claptrap is a way to informally show up its emptiness without having to risk a full-frontal face-off with powerful bullshit artists. Laughter might leave the language in place, but it can also take the wind out of its sails. Some people think laughter is too flippant for responding to management bullshit. Slowing down the production of bullshit is one step. But it is also vital to look at the ways which exchanges of bullshit take place. Most organisations have very insensitive bullshit detectors.
