{"id":965,"date":"2008-06-09T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=965"},"modified":"2008-06-09T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T19:13:09","slug":"the-curse-of-management-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"The curse of management-speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/money\/2008\/jun\/09\/workandcareers1\">an amusing article<\/a> in one of the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; supplements today about the terrible habit of management-speak which seems to afflict so many people &#8211; especially those in senior positions &#8211; at work.<br \/>\nCurrently the phrase which causes me most anguish is &#8220;going forward&#8221;. I was at a conference today and decided to note the numbers of times that the phrase was used. It was five &#8211; which could have been worse.<br \/>\nI find &#8220;going forward&#8221; an utterly redundant phrase. Invariably the subject of the sentence cannot be a a matter for the past or the present, so it <i>must<\/i> be something for the future. If there is any doubt, the use of a verb in the future tense covers it.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the management-speak that most annoys you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an amusing article in one of the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; supplements today about the terrible habit of management-speak which seems to afflict so many people &#8211; especially those in senior positions &#8211; at work. Currently the phrase which causes me most anguish is &#8220;going forward&#8221;. I was at a conference today and decided to note the [&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-965","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\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}