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This is what offices exist for. In fields where efficiency matters, you end up with contractors, working remotely, getting paid by the project, and not being t
by dlcarrier 8mo ago
This is what offices exist for. In fields where efficiency matters, you end up with contractors, working remotely, getting paid by the project, and not being tied to one company. This is how lots of engineering and architecture works as well as many other fields.
In a work environment dominated by office social situations, language plays a key role in establishing social status, but there are other forms of posturing, with promotions generally based more on social status than job performance, reinforcing the social hierarchy. Technical buzzwords aren't even the only kind of jargon used in this manor, there's often an entire litany of language used outside of the job functions themselves. For example, human resources has its own language rules.
The author has come across this phenomenon and is attributing it to language alone, but there is far more involved here.
- red-iron-pine 8mo agoHR has its own language rules because their job is to police language that could be considered hostile, and because they do things like hiring and firing, and that comes with very specific legal implications. there is definitely a proscribed way of doing HR and that also comes with definitions and language. many field are like this, and it's not some magical pop organizational psychology