• We've got progress in each of these swim-lanes
• I just want to double-foot stomp what the vice president said
• The team has continued to Pac-Man away at the problem
• We'll present this to show them the art of the possible
• Me and the other directors had a mind-meld on this topic
• We don't have all the information; we'll have to pull the thread on that after the meeting
• It's a short timeline so we're going to have to hit the ground running on all cylinders
• Our excellently crafted PowerPoint is sure to get them to hit the "I believe" button
• It's going to be important to establish a sense of urgency

Well, phrases such as:

• We must aim to reach return of investment
• Make sure to know your target demographic
• Customers want content

all reek of terminal capitalism

I'm curious of how much of the annoyance at these jargon terms is generational. I've seen a couple versions of this article (https://www.businessinsider.com/workplace-jargon-gen-z-and-millennials-left-out-work-2023-6) floating around the past couple of days, and people my age (I'm gen x) and older seem to be the main people relying on workplace jargon.

I used to hate all of the office jargon so freakin' much, but eventually decided that it is an excellent tool for masking. I still avoid a lot of the phrases listed, but some have made it into my regular vocabulary because they easily identify complex yet frequently relevant concepts. I'm much less likely to wind up in spin if I can say "we should focus on such-and-such because it is low-hanging fruit"; otherwise I'll tend to dive into a deep analysis of the relative benefits compared to the work effort involved of every relevant item, just to convince people that "such-and-such" is the best place for us to focus our limited resources.

"Circle back to" and "sense of urgency" set me on edge. I'm constantly shelving stuff to get back to it later and pretty much always concerned that I'm not "doing good enough" or quickly enough so I don't need faceless suits throwing my symptoms like buzz words around so casually.

You may like the simple language stuff that is happening. There is a major effort to remove jargon, legalese and corporate nonsense from all customer facing documents.

It's becoming an accessibility standard in my country. All government documents are expected to utilize this in the comming years.

The Hemingway Editor is becoming my friend in this fight. And Microsoft is starting to implement simple language suggestions in its products.

Hopfully it will soon hit RTE tools so that my long winded comments will also be simple.

The standard formula that starts every presentation in corporate websites:

"At X, we..."