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God these are so americanized, I can't imagine saying these things in Australian workplace, they are so de-humanizing corporate bullshit. "As per my prediction
by jofzar 2y ago
God these are so americanized, I can't imagine saying these things in Australian workplace, they are so de-humanizing corporate bullshit.
"As per my prediction, this outcome does not come as a surprise."
Might as well say "go fuck yourself, eat shit, I was right"
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- sneak 2y agoAs means per. Anyone saying “as per” is deliberately trying to sound pompous.
- antonvs 2y ago> As means per. Not exactly. You can use each one alone in this context, but they don't quite mean the same thing. "As predicted" means something like "In the way that was predicted". "Per my prediction" means "According to my prediction". As you noted, the combination doesn't really make sense: "In the way that according to". But it's an idiom. People say it just because they've heard others say it. The Merriam Webster definition for "per" (sense 3) says "according to — often used with as". Like many idioms, it doesn't necessarily make sense if you break it down. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/per https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/per
- mrkpdl 2y agoThis is a pet peeve of mine: the whole first half of the sentence is unnecessary. If something doesn’t come as a surprise then it was predicted. That said this is satire, and saying it twice does make the joke better.
- userbinator 2y agoAmerican white-collar workers, to be specific; communications among blue-collar workers is usually far more direct.
- bawolff 2y agoI'm canadian and we (i assume) have a similar culture as the americans. These don't feel professional, they feel like a satire of professional-speak. Like they use all the sterotypical words but they dont sound like things someone would actually say. Unless you are pissed at someone and are trying to tell someone to "fuck off" without getting fired. Which i guess is the point of the site, but not how professional communication works.
- loloquwowndueo 2y agoThey were probably ai-generated.
- vunderba 2y agoI honestly thought you were making that one up, but it's in there. "As per my prediction, this outcome does not come as a surprise." I don't know if there needs to be a "country flag" next to each suggestion or something, because no native English speaker from the United States would ever recommend responding like this. There is simply no possible means of delivery in which this line does not come across as incredibly smug and condescending.
- Stratoscope 2y agoThey are not Americanized at all. I've lived in the western US all my life, and worked for many companies large and small. In my entire life, I have never heard a native speaker of American English talk or write like that, either in a business or personal context. They do sound like stereotypical Indian business English. No offense to my friends and colleagues from India! It may just be what Americans imagine Indian English sounds like.
- bee_rider 2y agoBased on some other comments in this thread I think it was originally intended to be satirical but is evolving away from that. Which makes it a bit tricky. "As per my prediction, this outcome does not come as a surprise." Sounds dickish to this American as well. I think there’s no polite way to say “I told you so.” Maybe something along the lines of “yeah, well, that’s about what we expected, but it was a nice try” could work? It still isn’t great but at least it puts you together on the losing team.
- mierz00 2y agoI have heard variations of most of these in corporate Australia. But this tends to happen between people or teams that don’t know each other.