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A comment on My manager uses technical terms incorrectly all the time, how do I correct them?.
Me: "Wait, hold on, when we are talking about Agile, do you mean Scrum? Like the one with weekly sprints?"
Boss: "What's a sprint? I mean those guys who handle the AWS and servers and backups."
Me: "Ohh, so you meant DevOps?"
Boss: "Yeah, that's the word."
Me: "Ohh... I used to confuse those words a lot too."
Just be polite, don't make them feel embarrassed. Take a neutral tone. Do it for clarification, not because it hurts your ears.
Me: "Wait, hold on, when we are talking about Agile, do you mean Scrum? Like the one with weekly sprints?"
Boss: "What's a sprint? I mean those guys who handle the AWS and servers and backups."
Me: "Ohh, so you meant DevOps?"
Boss: "Yeah, that's the word."
Me: "Ohh... I used to confuse those words a lot too."
Just be polite, don't make them feel embarrassed. Take a neutral tone. Do it for clarification, not because it hurts your ears.