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LearningsMarch 1. The first 6 months of working for a large company are spent trying to understand what people are saying. With my 5 year anniversary of working for a large company soon approaching, I feel it necessary to remind myself and others that not understanding someone doesn't make you stupid. It makes them stupid because while their words are English, they are likely speaking metaphor. And if not metaphor, they're likely verbing nouns. What makes these terms so easy to hate is the same thing that makes them so easy to use. They're just terms that make people feel clever when they could have used normal understandable terms. Learnings.org catalogs these terms. It's like a white collar Urban Dictionary. These are my 15 most least liked corporate buzzwords:
Forget 15. I hate them all. |
