There was once a time where the phrase 'innovative' had been used so much, you pretty much knew from the get go a company that touted it's success on being 'inn

There was once a time where the phrase 'innovative' had been used so much, you pretty much knew from the get go a company that touted it's success on being 'innovative' or 'forward' to be guilty of exactly the opposite. Same thing with the word 'proactive'. I learned the hard way that a supervisor who interviews you and makes it an explicit point to say 'I'm not a micromanager' is exactly that. In 2010, the buzzword became 'open' and the theme was 'transparency'. I'm starting to learn that a company that calls itself 'open' and 'transparent' is either exactly the opposite, or has decided to redefine what 'open' and 'transparent' mean in order to fit their own archetype of rhetoric. Oligarchies by way of Nielsen's Law.