This frustrates me greatly. Many "engineering management" professors will show Dilbert strips and Office Space memes, then immediately fall into using the same

This frustrates me greatly. Many "engineering management" professors will show Dilbert strips and Office Space memes, then immediately fall into using the same kind of vocabulary that these works mocked. (Recall that Initech in Office Space had "Hawaiian Shirt Fridays" - one of the core features of this manager-speak is to try to appear human and relevant as much as possible.)