outta the box

If you work for a large corporation, you've undoubtedly heard the phrase "think outside the box" enough times to make your ears bleed. This morning, on a radio talk show interview, I overhead someone praised as an original, creative, and "outta the box thinker" (i.e., a pre-packaged thinker, one who starts his 'thinking' as soon as you take him out of the box -- and if you if you don't like the way he thinks, you can put him back inside the box and take the box back to WalMart for a refund) and wondered if I'd caught corporate doublespeak in a freudian slip . . .