Sick of Corporate Buzzwords? These Employees Are Fighting Back With Satire |
‘Pause the Pineapples!’ Employees are inventing nonsensical rivals to work phrases like ‘circle back’ and ‘blue-sky thinking.’ Is this a win-win for clear workplace language?
BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC
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There are few things people love to hate more than workplace jargon — to the point that some organizations regularly compile lists of the most despised bits of trendy office lingo. Now, some worker-satirists are taking that mockery a step further by coining utterly nonsensical biz-speak phrases to rival those they routinely hear uttered in earnest at work.
The hobby of crafting ridiculous remarks as parodies of common workplace idioms like “blue-sky thinking,” “put a pin in it,” or “move the needle” drew the recent attention of storytelling platform Upworthy.........