synergize fail

The specific, exquisite disaster that happens when an attempt to align, collaborate, or leverage collective team energy goes spectacularly wrong — the workshop that produces nothing, the brainstorm that devolves into passive-aggressive silence, the offsite that costs thousands and changes everything back to exactly what it was. A synergize fail is a badge of honor in satirical office culture because it proves that the machinery of corporate collaboration can be both elaborate and completely useless at the same time. It's the meeting that needed another meeting.