From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over

Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by drb91 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @05:34PM (#16018655)

I use at the end of the day; it’s a meaningless verbal tic, less something you could, erm, justify in a business context.

Annoying? Oh yea.

But what is wrong with reaching out? Seems like a different way of phrasing “make contact with”, except with a connotation of intending to help.

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Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by Jedd on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @07:52PM (#16019439)

I eschew 'reaching out'. It can be replaced by more honest and/or accurate terms. The big problem is that it is part of the problem - people that use this phrase tend to use other occluding language. And people that speak or write that way - as per TFA - tend to do it a lot.

Btw, 'intending to help' I don't think is implied. Naturally you may 'reach out' to provide or offer assistance, but in a business context there should be a business driver for doing the actual contact thing, and then you can choose to specify the context or not.

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Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by pwython on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @05:45PM (#16018719)

At the end of the day, all of these phrases aren't that bad, as long as you don't overuse them. eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAaWrdMf-j0

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