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Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs (news.cornell.edu)

submitted 18 hours ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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YA THINK?

“Corporate bullshit is a specific style of communication that uses confusing, abstract buzzwords in a functionally misleading way,” said Littrell, a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences. “Unlike technical jargon, which can sometimes make office communication a little easier, corporate bullshit confuses rather than clarifies. It may sound impressive, but it is semantically empty.”

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[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 27 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I’m sorry, but “synergizing” and “paradigm”, aren’t these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I’m accusing them of anything like that—

I’m fired, aren’t I?

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 points 23 minutes ago

Paradigm by itself is useful in computer science. A lot of corpo speak comes from terms initially created for agile, but eventually scrum masters were not the engineers and the useful words that were used a describers are now used as content. Agile is a mistake.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh yes. The rest of you, get to work on thinking of a name. Like Poochie, but more proactive.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

So....

Everyone ok with "Poochie"?

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 12 hours ago

So... Everybody okay with synergizing this paradigm then?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I’m fired, aren’t I?

Now now, we don't use that kind of language here, this is a family company, because our bonds create greater amplification of the synergies between the aligned areas. ~~HR~~ Family Relations will have a constructive discussion about your behavior paradigm within the family