The buzz over annoying corporate buzzwords

Faith Salie shares a "disruptive action item" for business buzzword users to "on-board" (that is, if you don't want to be "smartsized" out of a job).

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[Lyen]

this is somewhere between comic gold and torture

[dennismorris]

Excellent piece by Faith Salie, masterfully presented. I wholly agree.

[FGHG]

Yes! Thank you CBS Sunday Morning! I cannot stress enough how absolutely *DONE* I am with corporate jargon, workplace buzzwords and lingo, and corporate-speak. This stuff truly grinds my gears. And don't even get me started with LinkedIn influencers, hustle gurus, "grindfluencers, " passive income hustlers, etc. Why can't anyone in corporate America ever just *TALK NORMALLY??!!*

[Me]

My last boss spoke in nothing but workplace buzzwords. While actually saying nothing.

[sharonmarianelli]

The one I hate the most is "transparency." The more a company tries to make them transparent, the more the hide.

[ptCraigHodges]

Agree. Here you can never be excited- only super excited is seemingly acceptable 😂

[gisellejoseph]

30 secs in I'm already stressed 😪

[gotime]

let's sync up to leverage your bandwidth.

[davidoday]

Just talk to me like I'm a regular person!

[rrfirefly]

The entire corporate scene and its lame attempt at being more "hip" than anything previous. Not impressed. Years ago, at the grocery store I'd come across employees from a department (produce, for example) standing around in a circle while their manager gave them a hearty pep talk. At the end they all clap their hands and root for their "team" -- yuck, do that somewhere else where I don't have to see it. In the back, behind doors.

[donniewilliams]

This is my everyday. I’m a baby boomer new to the corporate world. I still think PFMEA is an antibiotic

[MrMatteNWk]

I've never heard "boil the ocean" and I've been around corporations and its jargon in some way or another for a long time

[joshfactor]

after he proposed a vocational paradigm shift, he made an impromptu presentation using a four-pronged approach that really brought him to his knees

[inamorata]

I don't like corporate buzzwords because I don't much like corporations. They're part of the problem.

[bethmiller]

Buzzwords and jargon are nothing more than obfuscation. In my most recent line of work, I was taught never to use them.

[TellyMan]

it might be the geek in me, but when i hear clooud i think data centers and AI and data warehousing in different silos

[whotoinfinity]

Ahhh wordsmithery, I could wax on and off about it. But I have to go to my new 12 step group right now. Its for folks who can't stop talking: On and On Anon.

[RaymondHng]

Teenagers have their own jargon…brill.

[ag-bkwf]

Artifical Intelligence(2024/5), Block Chain Technology (2020), synergy (2017) and digital transformation (2015 and 2020) my working experience.

[YTRoss]

I cant stand them, a bunch of words to make ppl feel important...CAP.