I wonder how related this is to certain people always dating men or women who are assholes. You know, women dating the bad boys and men dating the bitches. Kind of like high school and college, only in the work place and for more money.
There are some managers out there who get all excited when I tell them that they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about, particularly when they try to use technical terms. I have one manager here who I think is now deliberately using terms wrong just so that I will correct him.
Like if the customer sends an email asking about certain out-of-the-box functionality and my boss is all ‘cat is very good at thinking outside the box and shifting her paradigms to maximize the synergy of the deliverable that you receive moving forward and will reach out to you to leverage her core competencies so feel free to ping her as a resource at any time.’
And then I say ‘Boss, out-of-the-box means that the software already does that without us adding custom code, and here are the instructions you should give the customer.’
Boss gets all gooey and then tells me how wonderful I am and extra money shows up in my pay.
If I play it just right, and have the appropriate level of engineer surliness with management from the customer, well, that has gotten me promoted. 
I bet he’d be extra happy if you started wearing leather and carrying a whip.
Or if I just kick him in the balls occasionally.
Well, I can see that. But then, I think ‘born and bred’ would be tautological, rather than in reverse order.
Apropos of the attention paid to bizspeak in this thread, I want to also go on record - and I hope it’s taken to heart and heeded universally immediately - I am truly bugged by the reference to where I live as a market. Even if you’re selling things, talk about the Western U.S., or the Midwest or the Chicago area, or whatever. I live here. It’s only a market to someone who’s selling something - so if you’re referring to this place, geographically, your own profit-oriented perspective on it need not be the descriptor.
In the same way, I don’t like to be referred to as a consumer when a customer is what I usually am. Again, I understand that context in which I literally am a consumer, but that language puts the focus indirectly on your product and your income regarding the commercial relationship we have. While customer puts the emphasis on the seeker, that person who wants or desires something. Those businesses that claim that they care first about the consumer tip their hand through their language. Not as bad as “market” but still has potential as subtle maker of ill will.
There’s no arguing with me.
What’s your problem? “Market” is a perfectly cromulent word.
I work in a court of law, and what irritates me are Bizspeak references to the litigants or parties in lawsuits in this court as “our customers.” Excuse me? I might have to rule against them. I might enjoin them. I might hold them in contempt, or even send them to jail. I will do my best, consistent with my oath, to give them fair and impartial justice, but they are not “customers,” now or going forward.