Corporate abuse of language is frustrating. I’ve worked with a lot of product manager types that really want to use extra words. “Let’s just swag it”. “We need to force rank these initiatives”. “Can you do a research spike this sprint?”
We had a guy that was famous for wanting to use the latest words. Everytime he heard a new buzzword or jargon, he’d basically be a child with a new toy and use it every other sentence for the coming month.
Corporate abuse of language is frustrating. I’ve worked with a lot of product manager types that really want to use extra words. “Let’s just swag it”. “We need to force rank these initiatives”. “Can you do a research spike this sprint?”
We had a guy that was famous for wanting to use the latest words. Everytime he heard a new buzzword or jargon, he’d basically be a child with a new toy and use it every other sentence for the coming month.
I hope you used to feed him words you’d made up.
He’s just operationalizing his vocabulary.
Could have been a scene in American Psycho
Research has consistently shown those staff have the lowest productivity and also love AI.
It’s too often to obfuscate abusive conditions in contracts, written at the end in a thick paragraph and long sentences with 3p fonts (dark patterns).