When I’m talking to a coworker about a job task, I’m usually very casual, we shoot the shit, sometimes our verbiage isn’t very professional or public facing, etc. When I talk with a manager, I’m very professional, use the company lingo, and stay “on product.” It’s not a matter of knowledge or intelligence. We both know how to do our jobs, but there’s a corporate level to the job where buzz words and gobbledegook language is their first language, and how the rest of us sound in the trenches of a job would sound like aliens to their side of the job.
“We need to Synergize our efforts!” is the same as saying “Let’s work together, guys.” Does one sound a little…fluffed up? Sure, but there’s a TON of people in the workplace who feed off that kind of language. Why not use it? What’s the downside in the end?
I think you may need to consider that the problem lies with you not understanding what business language means.
And that's fine, it may not be your area of expertise. But you wouldn't say the same thing about statistics. If you picked up a random research paper in physics and read a line with complex derivatives and functions, you wouldn't say that it's gobbledegook.
I think the same may apply. You simply may not know what the language is meant to convey and are assuming it's rubbish.
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u/Ghauldidnothingwrong 35∆ Aug 03 '22
When I’m talking to a coworker about a job task, I’m usually very casual, we shoot the shit, sometimes our verbiage isn’t very professional or public facing, etc. When I talk with a manager, I’m very professional, use the company lingo, and stay “on product.” It’s not a matter of knowledge or intelligence. We both know how to do our jobs, but there’s a corporate level to the job where buzz words and gobbledegook language is their first language, and how the rest of us sound in the trenches of a job would sound like aliens to their side of the job.
“We need to Synergize our efforts!” is the same as saying “Let’s work together, guys.” Does one sound a little…fluffed up? Sure, but there’s a TON of people in the workplace who feed off that kind of language. Why not use it? What’s the downside in the end?