I work for a big (multinational) software company. Most of the managers there regularly use words like smarts, cadence and on-boarding (ugh). I'm a manager too but I won't go anywhere near words like these. It seems like the higher up the management chain you go, the more likely you are to use them.
It's important to me to maintain the respect of my team and I just don't think you can do that when you throw these sorts of words around. They're cheesy and false and I'm frustrated to see people who I once respected adopting them. Now I have to try very hard not to hate them.
Why can't people just say what they mean using all the perfectly adequate words we already have in the English language? Don't they realise that they sound like corporate tools and thereby distance themselves from their staff?
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