Incensed at being “incented”
From the BBC, a list of loathed office jargon. And a Vancouverite has the top item — cool!
I must admit that I don’t mind being incentivized (the #4 item) — but I detest how that’s turning into being incented. Whatever happened to being motivated?
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I was a bit surprised that empowered didn’t make it on the list. Maybe it’s no longer considered gauche corporate doublespeak — or maybe it’s become passe, destined for the dustbin of business-speak…
Personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing “empowered” face linguistic extinction, being rediscovered decades from now by corporate anthropologists scouring through historical texts… 