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The language really gets me. Maybe (happily) I've been out of corporate America for too long to get it... "...part ways with you..." --> "We've decided to fire
by NoImmatureAdHom 3y ago
The language really gets me. Maybe (happily) I've been out of corporate America for too long to get it...
"...part ways with you..." --> "We've decided to fire you."
"...Rosie might be better to explain the process of who's giving this information..." --> "Rosie can talk about why it's us vs. your manager."
"...this is a collective calibration for Cloudflare..." --> what the fuck?
"...if you can respect that. We can totally respect that..." --> at a loss
"...meet the expectations that you're communicating to us..." --> "...tell you what you want to know..."
"...give you the data that was calibrated..." --> ...how do you calibrate data? FFS.
"...extremely traumatizing for people..." --> ha ha ha...goddamn snowflake. You're getting fired, it's not fun, but it's not like watching your buddies get blown up in front of you and waking up in bed screaming for the next forty years.
"...I cannot speak to what your manager has communicated to you directly..." --> "I don't know what your manager said"
"...I hear you and what you're saying..." --> "I understand"
"...from a process perspective, your questions are valid but this isn't going to be the forum and situation where..." --> "We aren't going to have that conversation with you now"
"...I don't think there's anything we can say in this moment and today..." --> "Sorry"
In particular, what's up with the duplication? "this moment & today", etc.? I hear it from people with a low bureaucratic position a lot. Think firefighter making an announcement, HR drone, etc.
- SpicyLemonZest 3y agoThe purpose of this kind of language is minimizing the chances that you put your foot in your mouth, not clarity or conciseness.
- NoImmatureAdHom 3y ago...but it's ALL foot-in-mouth
- atomicone 3y agotruly rolled over laughing at "collective calibration". kudos to you for going over their BS speak line by line and laying it bare. At the risk of generalization, HR at most companies in the US are truly tone deaf these days.