Oh, I know. "Utilize" is one of my pet peeves. It shamed me to no end to hear it come out of my mouth when I wasn't thinking carefully. Clearly I've been working here too long.

And luckily, I don't actually work daily with baggy-panted corporate types, but I do interview them over the phone frequently for the magazines I edit. Sometimes it's like pulling teeth trying to get them to say something that isn't empty corporate-speak. Frankly, if that's the kind of talk that goes on in boardrooms around the world, it's a wonder anything gets done.