Since this is giving me Don Beveridge vibes (R.I.P), I remember when RedLetterMedia’s Best of the Worst Black Spine edition had his customization seminar on their first episode.
They were laughing and thinking he was some kind of lunatic conman for all of the supposedly nonsense things he was spouting about pushing whopper buttons and deficiencies of PK and a bunch of other stuff, and I’m just sitting back thinking “nope…I understand every word he’s saying.” Because not only do I have to live currently in an environment where my upper managers emails are filled with such nonsense, but my first job was AT Burger King when I was 16 in 1992 and guess what…
THEY HAD A LITERAL WHOPPER BUTTON!
It was used by management to tell the staff when to keep more burgers in the warming tray and when to lower the supply based on customer traffic. They implemented it because…“75% of the time the Whopper was being served cold”
“Push the Whopper Button” is shorthand for being efficient with when and where you’re spending your resources so that your not wasting them where you don’t have to and not having them available when you do.
“Deficiency of PK”
HIT THE WHOPPER BUTTON!
The best thing I ever did was get out of a job/career in an industry that bought into that cult nonspeak. Anytime i hear that stuff anymore, I think of this Weird Al song.
‘If we take a step back we can truly appreciate the granularity of sentiment in this curated list of words’ - someone from HR, probably 🤮
I once got an email from an executive C-level who mentioned adding value at least four times in a single paragraph.
Annoying as hell because the email hardly contained anything of substance.
I had a business professor who used “value add” constantly, to the point that I still can’t hear that 20 years later without cringing. Our final project in his class was something like “look at a business and find a place where you can value add.” That was literally all the guidance we got.
That would be every e-mail from C-level.
That’s the special executive duckspeak.
I’ve gone from being righteously angry to bored and hopeless hearing the speech of some particularly skilled practitioners.
It’s really kind of amazing how this kind of babble can have such an intense emotional impact while textually imparting almost 0 new information.
It’s all about the vibes conveyed by the medium. Kind of like how trump talks in a way, come to think of it.
Honorable mentions: “source of truth” and “sanity check”.
I’m in full swing of a job search and I painfully relate to this image
No way, this is a great reference chart. All the actionables have been curated into one place.
Grit. I worked at a massive tech company that found this one and it was fucking everywhere. I don’t mind the basic concept of it, but it was just in every conversation for like 2+ years.
I cannot tell you how many bosses Ive had/ heard say they are going to have a moment of “radical kindness” and then proceed to just RIP into their employees until they cry.
Corporate double speak is wack.
I’m picking up a scent of conservative-flavored grindset thinking, where since adversity and pain build character and resilience, I’m pretty much the best person I can be by being a complete piece of shit to those around me.
This sounds quite specific for something you had to experience multiple times. Hope the people are ok and you found something better to work for.
idk, I know that there are great companies to work for- my sister found a unicorn of a job. Great pay (and hourly), tons of vacation, work from home, a decent amount of travel but not too much (she’s in sales for a scientific instrument company), but I have job hopped enough to know that what she has is now becoming the exception. And of course to your point, this is all anecdotal. I’m now self employed and I’ve never been busier nor happier.
To be fair, Game Changer was a great strain. Very creative, me an a bud enjoyed some an launched into DND world building for an hour an a half
Weaponized language
The one I hate most: “Art of the Possible”.
You forgot “Digital Transformation”
Alternative title how you know you need to find another place to work
