Garbage Language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?

Re:Garbage Language: Why do corporations speak the way they do? by zcw100 on Monday March 21, 2022 @01:23PM (#30757017)

Posting this just never gets old...

  > It must have been a couple of months because...
  >> I keep this link sitting around and enjoy dusting it off every couple of 
  >> months or so
  >> https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

I'll quote the relevant section, "He is oblivious to the fact that the Sociopaths use Powertalk as a coded language with which to simultaneously sustain the (necessary) delusions of the Clueless and communicate with each other."

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Re:Garbage Language: Why do corporations speak the way they do? by greazy on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:50AM (#30763976)

I was thinking of this essay exactly. There's a huge amount of powertalk. In the linked Away story, the CEO fired a guy who didn't participate in power play. It was very weird reading it in real life.

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