{"id":12707,"date":"2013-10-23T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T10:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12707"},"modified":"2013-10-23T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:07:07","slug":"how-so-many-managers-are-killing-the-english-language-with-their-annoying-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12707","title":{"rendered":"How so many managers are killing the English language with their annoying jargon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of my work life listening to managers sprouting the latest management jargon to sound clever and corporate. \u00a0As I wait to enter yet another such meeting, I&#8217;m sipping a cappuccino in a &#8220;Costa&#8221; cafe and browsing the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper, there&#8217;s a delightful feature about the use of of office jargon. It gives a total of 26 example and I reckon that I&#8217;ve come across 20 of them (somehow I&#8217;ve missed the likes of &#8220;brain shower&#8221; and &#8220;zero cycles&#8221;). Currently the one that makes me maddest is &#8220;going forward&#8221; which is utterly meaningless. How can anyone stay in the present or move to the past? They can&#8217;t &#8211; so just use the future tense.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2013\/oct\/22\/a-z-modern-office-jargon\">here<\/a>. What is your most annoying bit of jargon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of my work life listening to managers sprouting the latest management jargon to sound clever and corporate. \u00a0As I wait to enter yet another such meeting, I&#8217;m sipping a cappuccino in a &#8220;Costa&#8221; cafe and browsing the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper. In the paper, there&#8217;s a delightful feature about the use of of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12707"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12713,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions\/12713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}