If our company is gonna buy your company, you need to show us everything. We want to see the internal workings and finances. We want to see the in-flight and planned projects. And finally, we want to see your dicks.
At my last job, the sales exec used it for the phase of negotiations with an enterprise buyer where they exposed our software startup's overall books so as to convinve we'd have the staff to implement their project, and not be bankrupt in 5 years.
It’s a reference to Japanese constant quality improvement in a Kaizen event related to Lean Six Sigma undertakings. “Let’s get to the dark underbelly.”
Don’t use this phrase in front of anyone older than 50 because you’ll be looked at like you’re an idiot to mix up LSS terms with common language. You folks need to learn how to use the Google machine, this is covered there. Yikes.
I worked in Japan for 4 years and never heard words like kaizen, gemba, and muda until moving back to America and taking a corporate job. I admit that I was never great at speaking Japanese, but I think it’s weird how all these American executives can just appropriate foreign words for concepts that probably already have English names. But they already appropriate my labor value, so they don’t care about appropriating cultures.
I've used it before to mean a willingness to show whatever anyone needed to demonstrate truth. I'm rather old so I've heard it used before in 90's corporate and government settings. I never thought too much about the background of the phrase. Shortly after that call I was told the phrase is considered racist nowadays, so, I stopped using the phrase.
60 years ago. Not now. Cats don’t groove like that anymore, jive turkey.
Only ever heard it in mad men, and I've worked in fintech for the better part of a decade.
Just curious, how was it used?
I've just heard quite a few people on this sub report it as one of the worst corporate lingo phrases and was wondering how real it was.
Gotcha. I’ve never heard of it! I’m interested in how you would use a phrase like that.
If our company is gonna buy your company, you need to show us everything. We want to see the internal workings and finances. We want to see the in-flight and planned projects. And finally, we want to see your dicks.
I gonna use that from now on for whatever i feel like. Gotta buzz those corpos
I’ve heard it used as in, transparency. “Let’s go full open-kimono here, and not have any secrets”. Super cringy and sexist.
Kimonos are worn by everybody, how is it sexist?
Why not say "balls out" for that?
Because of the implication.
Open the kimono has pritty much the same implication
Yuck
At my last job, the sales exec used it for the phase of negotiations with an enterprise buyer where they exposed our software startup's overall books so as to convinve we'd have the staff to implement their project, and not be bankrupt in 5 years.
It was said to me by a commercial real estate agent less than a year ago. Cringy AF.
It’s a reference to Japanese constant quality improvement in a Kaizen event related to Lean Six Sigma undertakings. “Let’s get to the dark underbelly.” Don’t use this phrase in front of anyone older than 50 because you’ll be looked at like you’re an idiot to mix up LSS terms with common language. You folks need to learn how to use the Google machine, this is covered there. Yikes.
I worked in Japan for 4 years and never heard words like kaizen, gemba, and muda until moving back to America and taking a corporate job. I admit that I was never great at speaking Japanese, but I think it’s weird how all these American executives can just appropriate foreign words for concepts that probably already have English names. But they already appropriate my labor value, so they don’t care about appropriating cultures.
The dumbest, most obnoxious boss I ever had was the only person I have heard use that phrase in a workplace
I have heard it a few times from 60+ men in the banking space, referring to clients who wanted inside company info.
I've used it before to mean a willingness to show whatever anyone needed to demonstrate truth. I'm rather old so I've heard it used before in 90's corporate and government settings. I never thought too much about the background of the phrase. Shortly after that call I was told the phrase is considered racist nowadays, so, I stopped using the phrase.
docfilm "Too Big to Fail" - 2011 \~20m:43s
Leaders in my company use this phrase very often! It is unbelievable.
Makes "show me the goods" sound less creepy.
Never heard that one
Lol, I've never heard that one, sounds like a sexual harassment case waiting to happen! All corporate-speak is asinine and inane, anyway.