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I'm sure this is part of the deal with considered corp-speak, as in the stuff that ends up in formal documents. But honestly a big chunk of it is just the sort
by naravara 4y ago
I'm sure this is part of the deal with considered corp-speak, as in the stuff that ends up in formal documents. But honestly a big chunk of it is just the sort of specialized jargon that always develops in a specialized industry. It's not like doctors or plumbers or anyone else don't end up with little idiomatic expressions like this after a while. It's just that we all somewhat resent office work for being bullshit so we resent the signifiers associated with it. It's "cool" to not be corporate, so corporate behaviors become cringey.
Also, a lot of the surrender to it I think just happens because people are tired and not always paying close attention so when they're put on the spot in meetings to respond it's much easier to just spit out some vague but related sounding jargon salad than to actually make an incisive point.