The Lemon Juice Talk

Have you ever heard of the term "Lemon Juice Talk" ? It is an upgraded version of the "Coffee Talk". Back in the days where management wants to feel the ground of the workforce, they will mingle with the lower ranks during coffee breaks - in an informal manner. Such "Coffee talks" eventually migrated into an organised session for management to disseminate information to the lower ranks - this is usually accompanied by some food and light refreshments (coffee).

The "Coffee talks" then migrated to a coffee-less operandi mode - and serves as a conduit for management to do a top-down information dissemination.

Whats the next step? the "Lemon Juice Talk". It is not because there will be lemon juice serverd at the info session. It is for management to talk about how sour why certain objectives cannot be met, and how even higher management is to blamed. The sour grape syndrome. Can it get any worse? Only time will tell.


Reporting from the grapevine.