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I worked at Intel for a brief 3 month summer internship in finance (2010). One thing that struck me was that I was not allowed to put certain words in presenta
by wtvanhest 6y ago
I worked at Intel for a brief 3 month summer internship in finance (2010). One thing that struck me was that I was not allowed to put certain words in presentations because they didn't want those words used against them in court. Its been a long time so I don't remember what words, but that was a long time after the first set of anti-trust actions.
Maybe someone that has been there more recently can attest or counter my point, but it seemed to at least leave a surface wound on the culture.
- refurb 6y agoI work in healthcare, a highly regulated industry and we do the same thing. It’s to the point that we’ve developed euphemisms for all these words.
- mrep 6y agoNot intel, but I definitely have seen training videos about not saying "dominate the market" or "crush the competition".
- pradn 6y agoThere's similar guidance inside Google. These exact phrases are used as "no-no"s.
- kudokatz 6y agoThere has been official training at multiple, large tech companies other than Intel specifically geared towards preventing even accidental use of language that can be taken out-of-context. The practice is alive and well.
- riskyfive 6y agoUber had training that said you could never call a driver an employee or anything related to that, they were 'driver partners' or some such with words that imply a platform user
- walshemj 6y agoThats slightly diferent - there is a lot of law about employees status - mainly because the IRS doesn't want to lose out any $ not for any liberal concern for employees