Darius Kazemi

"The meaningful threat of garbage language — the reason it is not just annoying but malevolent — is that it confirms delusion as an asset in the workplace."

Molly Young on corporate garbage language:

https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html

Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?

The pernicious spread of corporatespeak, or garbage language, as Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley calls this kind of talk. Garbage language permeates the ways we think of our jobs and shapes our identities as workers.

Vulture
Feb 20, 2020 at 3:10pmWeb
Show threaddoctor garbage expertFeb 20, 2020

@darius DARIUS

THIS IS ABOUT MY JOB

Show threadranjitFeb 20, 2020
@whoisgina @darius 😭
Show threaddoctor garbage expertFeb 20, 2020

@ranjit @darius i think when i complain about “meetings” i’m complaining about this, like every “sync” and “touch base” just dances around the plain-language version of the task at hand

my rumors friend who quit described the process as “frothy” which is gross and correct

Show threadranjitFeb 20, 2020
@darius I feel unfairly lucky that my job is nothing like this
Show threadmhoyeFeb 20, 2020
@darius can you summarize the takeaway here, i need to parallelize my learnings
Show threadmhoyeFeb 20, 2020
@darius (I feel like there's substantial overlap between corporate garbage language and the classic shitpost? Like, the corp-lang prospectus is the shitpost's mirror image, designed for minimum impact at maximum effort.)