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I absolutely love corporate jargon. Not in an earnest way, but maybe more in the way people love terrible movies. For example, I’ll inject corpo-bullshit into
by next_xibalba 7mo ago
I absolutely love corporate jargon. Not in an earnest way, but maybe more in the way people love terrible movies.
For example, I’ll inject corpo-bullshit into regular conversations. When someone asks me to do something, instead of saying “no thanks”, I’ll say something like “this ideation aligns poorly with our 10,000 foot goals on a go-forward basis. Let’s revisit in a few cycles.”
- srean 7mo agoThanks for the much needed laugh in these times.
- seanw444 7mo agoAnd thanks to the recent Kagi Translate HN post, we have a tool to generate these more easily: https://translate.kagi.com/?to=corporate-jargon&from=en&text=Where+should+we+go+for+dinner+tonight%3F https://translate.kagi.com/?to=corporate-jargon&from=en&text...
- unfitted2545 7mo agoYeah, it's just fun to find creative ways to say common things!
- antod 7mo agoExcellent, I'm going to cascade that outcome to my team.
- froh 7mo agoah that reminds me of when small startup SUSE was acquired by Big Corporation Novell. German engineers saying "no" and "yes" and "the F word! in meetings!" met very polite Corporate Americans who had twenty supportive soundings ways of saying no. like "this is an interesting idea" -> no "we need to discuss this further" -> no "can you help me better understand?" -> no the only yes was "I do it, by such and such date" so the jargon created a culture clash which only accelerated the decline.