This article has a clear value-prop.
We can table this discussion for now. Lets take it offline.
Corporate buzzwords are how workers pretend to be adults
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Re: Corporate buzzwords are how workers pretend to be adults
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> I disagree, what I would want to say in such a situation is simply "this meeting is useless, let me get back to work", but I would be percieved as a grumpy developer with an attitude. Of course you would be. Why does it have to phrased in some extremely positive or negative way? Why not something like "I'm pretty busy working on x. If anything comes up in the meeting that needs my attention let me know afterwards…
Because the person conducting the meeting has already failed miserably at their job and must be made aware. A boss that conducts a useless meeting, knowing it's to hear themselves talk while knowing their subordinates are busy with important tasks that actually keep the company afloat is generally considered, and this is the technical term, a dick maneuver. His/her choice to have a time wasting meeting greatly increa…
This is full of assumptions and judgement. Of course you are viewed as a grumpy dev. You are one. Own it.
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#113I sometimes use business talk as a tool to make countering my points unattractive when having public discussions inside the company. For example - let's say your boss decides to introduce some mandatory meeting that everyone agrees is useless. Rather then complaining about it in normal language, I would say things like "well, one of our core values is delighting clients, which I would be able to do much more efficien…
Can you give an example of a time that's really worked? I enjoy giggling along at that sort of thing but I assume most managers see right through it.
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#114Article didn't even italicise its own use of "slide deck" which I thought was a nonsensical name for a pdf/PowerPoint when I first heard it used by some Londonian startup wallies.
Re: Corporate buzzwords are how workers pretend to be adults
#115I don't have anything to contribute, apart from a link to a comic which sums it up hilariously: