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Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 14 13, 2:59 pm
by docellis
Somebody checked snopes first, right? That was real?

Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 14 13, 3:00 pm
by Jocephus
docellis wrote:Somebody checked snopes first, right? That was real?
it's real. the voice for all is missing and presumed dead.

Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 14 13, 3:01 pm
by Freed Roger
His immediate firing letter should say - "No severance. You don't hear fired workers in India, Brasil, and China complaining about not getting severance - do you?"

Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 14 13, 3:45 pm
by lukethedrifter
wart57 wrote:
We need to keep issue x from radaring. -
I'm having a hard time believing that people actually say that.


/never worked corporate

Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 14 13, 4:02 pm
by Radbird
docellis wrote:Somebody checked snopes first, right? That was real?
Yes, it was posted on his company intranet blog. I keep checking the corporate directory to see if he's still here.

Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 14 13, 9:44 pm
by docellis
Radbird wrote:
docellis wrote:Somebody checked snopes first, right? That was real?
Yes, it was posted on his company intranet blog. I keep checking the corporate directory to see if he's still here.
I re-read your post after I said that, I'm sure you don't need to be snope checked. What a weird company culture.

Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 15 13, 7:40 am
by Radbird
It's gone from the company I joined in the mid-80s that espoused respect for the individual, provided free health benefits and a pension along with a full employment policy (i.e. no layoffs or "resource actions" as they are called today) to crap like this.

I used to love working here. Now I just count the days to retirement - definitely don't plan to "pretty much work until my death". If I were 10 years younger, I'd be out of here.

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat." - Lily Tomlin

Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 15 13, 8:56 am
by wart57
lukethedrifter wrote:
wart57 wrote:
We need to keep issue x from radaring. -
I'm having a hard time believing that people actually say that.


/never worked corporate
I have already heard it twice today.

Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 15 13, 9:01 am
by wart57
Radbird wrote:
docellis wrote:Somebody checked snopes first, right? That was real?
Yes, it was posted on his company intranet blog. I keep checking the corporate directory to see if he's still here.
This does not surprise me at all. I have head bosses say similar things in meetings, we maybe not the India and China thing, but we are always being to told to work "harder" on something. I prefer to work smarter.

Re: Corporate Speak

Posted: March 15 13, 9:19 am
by Jocephus
i have a 1 hour meeting with someone from the pappas consulting group next thursday...i hope its as entertaining as office space