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Illiterate corporate terms

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by epepke 2 views

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I'd like to start collecting a list of corporate terms which reflect either illiterate or nefarious use of language. Here are some to start. Please add more.

Quality Assurance
("To assure" means to talk about something in a comforting way.)Human Capital
(Capital is property, and people have not been property in the U.S. since the middle of the 19th century.)

Human Resources
(Maybe not as bad as capital, but nearly so. Compare "natural resources.")

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by generalist

This is a good start off the 'IT Capital' and other threads.

I would consider adding the following:

Fool Proof *OR Idiot Proof
(An impossible situation that assumes you can achieve perfection AND full control of the operating environment.)Exempt Employee
(An employee that is exempt from over-time pay but usually has to put in over-time)

by tech-type

How about:

Dynamic Inactivity
(The art of looking busy, while doing absolutely nothing.)

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