I always felt out of my element in a large company environment, my visit back to SAP this week reinforced that view. I was listening to the various speakers at ... It occured to me that maybe people, consumers to employees alike, would have greater belief in corporate institutions if companies talked like people:
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jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/07/26/corporate-doublespeak/
jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/07/26/corporate-doublespeak/
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American interests: 1. Corporate interests; keeping share prices up. 2. For the benefit of the rich. ... doublespeak: 1. professional jargon used by members of a disliked profession. 2. unfamiliar vocabulary, e.g. a French word...
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www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Doublespeak
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Doublespeak
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If there's one product American business can produce in large amounts, it's doublespeak. Doublespeak is language that only pretends to say something; it's language that hides, evades or misleads. ... But even those far below the lofty heights of corporate power are not fired or laid off. Firing workers is such big business...
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dt.org/html/Doublespeak.html
dt.org/html/Doublespeak.html
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The year 2009 looked very different when seen from the 1950s. Nuclear powered cars roamed the streets and people feasted on meal pills for dinner. Matt Novak sifts through these past visions of the future ... Other topics covered in the episode include the greatest hits of corporate jargon and a guide to war photography.
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www.utne.com/Science-Technology/UtneCast-Corporate-Doub...
www.utne.com/Science-Technology/UtneCast-Corporate-Doublespeak-War-Photography-and-PaleoFuture.aspx
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Reader slide23 writes in to point out Comcast's corporate doublespeak: ... The following statement may be attributed to Sena Fitzmaurice, Senior Director of Corporate Communications and Government Relations: "Consumers in apartment buildings and condos across the nation received a blow today from the action taken by the...
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www.techdirt.com/articles/20071101/145432.shtml
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Lots of corporations are eliminating redundancies these days. Now you can do the same in a free web game dubbed Layoff. ... Inspired by games that require you to match three objects, such as Bejeweled, you start with a grid of workers. You swap positions of any two workers to align three ... Some might view it as distasteful,
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venturebeat.com/2009/03/17/layoff-game-meant-as-salve-f...
venturebeat.com/2009/03/17/layoff-game-meant-as-salve-for-corporate-doublespeak/
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If he is referring to the corporation, then why is he addressing the letter to the non-corporate Church members? If he is referring to the Church members who have supported UCGIA (which seems to be the case) then in what way are these problems of cash flow the responsibility of those brethren?
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www.servantsnews.com/sn9806/s9806013.htm
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That's right, for just $50, you can have a software product that will go through your documents and modify it to add back in meaningless corporate doublespeak (read: bullshit) designed to make the documents sound better.
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techdirt.com/articles/20050725/183204_F.shtml
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Martha Stewart Ends Feud with Rachael Ray in the Worst Way Possible: She Apologizes #badthings #marthastewart ... Obama's First Thanksgiving Proclamation: Just OK #holidays #barackobama ... And it offers some truly classic examples of fact-free corporate jargon:
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gawker.com/5066644/nielsen-layoffs-confirmed-with-corpo...
gawker.com/5066644/nielsen-layoffs-confirmed-with-corporate-doublespeak
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