With rare exceptions, they tend to be shallow, frothy, over-garnished, prone to hanging out in the kinds of corporate beach bars where sunburned vacationers pretend to be Jimmy Buffett characters, and as treacly and inane as an "American Idol" finale song.
The recession brought some cutbacks to such gatherings, but surveys in recent years suggest that office mates will once again find themselves together for company softball games, picnics or corporate beach parties.
And no disguising it ambiguously as "thanks Nike," as if Nike was just cool enough to let you use their corporate getaway beach house because you asked nicely.
Farther down the beach, corporate consultant Peter Pappas looked up from a history of Istanbul to vent his own anger at the prospect of a temporary Grexit.
The first California location opened last month in El Segundo, on the edge of Manhattan Beach, in a neighborhood where corporate America meets beach city -- self-tanning salons, waxing centers and gyms are interspersed between mid-rise offices for Accenture and Murad along Rosecrans Boulevard.
Just before trial, however, Mr. Sciacca and Brother Records — the Beach Boys' corporate entity — agreed to work out a settlement and to go to binding arbitration, if necessary.
Mr. Bergeron's employers, King World and Vin Di Bona Productions, now split his $3,600-a-month rent on a two-bedroom corporate apartment near the beach in Santa Monica.
It means that you, the customer, are nothing, an impediment, a nuisance, an awkwardness, a de minimis statistic, a grain of sand on the beach of corporate wealth.
Wise-cracking all the way, he travels from a club in Milan where everyone dresses badly to a tribal dance performance led by a white corporate mogul on a Fiji beach, complete with hot rocks for the dancers to walk on.
Carolina League MYRTLE BEACH PELICANS--Named Robert Stockhausen corporate sales executive and Patrick Coakley head groundskeeper.
Unable to find a corporate job, Mr. Cimarosa decided to return to the beach before attending graduate school in the fall at the University of California, San Diego.
