tcsd38 - That is all painfully true!!!
My present company has embarked upon the task of "restructuring" and "streamlining the business". There are many other words and phrases that are being bandied about, with long-winded explantions of hideous complexity.
These explanations, after an hour or so of careful analysis, boil down to having as much meaning as the words they seek to describe. Consequently, the workforce has gone into "mushroom" mode (kept in the dark, yadda, yadda, yadda).
No-one knows what is really happening in the upper echelons, (one would suspect even the upper echelons), while long messages, punctuated by streams of exclamation marks spam our in-boxes, with tales of how well the business is doing, and how the restructuring is having such an impact, but we must all do our best to ensure it keeps going. Usually in terms of more hours, no overtime and more enforced "creativity" and "team work".
This latter is presumably to pay for all the consultants who are instructing the business managers in the ways of "Oozelum bird" practices.
Twice-weekly "Emergency, All-Hands" meetings, lasting up to two hours, bombard us with more business phrases and long-winded meandering (although the word business has been replaced with another 8-letter word beginning with "B" by much of the workforce - who have taken to playing a form of Bingo...).
These meetings place the emphasis on how well the business is doing in a kind of Chinese water-torture or radio playlist manner. Any direct questioning in these meetings tends to be answered so vaguely as to be in the realms of side-stepping, and usually a joke is made when a particularly pertinent point is raised by an attendee.
My main complaint in all of this is that, as a technical person with a technical job, I'm not very interested in the fine points of the business - I only want the salient points, and I would quite like them in English, since a whole load of new terms seem to have entered the language of "Businesseeze" since I went to business college.
I'm not interested in how near we are to achieving our mid-term objectives if I'm not told what they are, and I don't really want to hear terms like "tune and prune", "slipstream new practices" or "leverage our existing successes" without any reference to what they actually mean. There is, after all, no such verb as "leverage".
I will, however, be doing everything I can to "beverage" in the interim. The Interim is a very good pub just across the road, BTW...

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