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Originally posted by ggile:
Saw this today in our local help wanted ads: Now Hiring. Human Capital and Talent Acquisition Specialist.

I assume they are looking for a human resource person, then again, maybe not!?

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“Roundtable” ... “learnings”

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I saw this one in the Afghanistan thread: "over-the-horizon"

I heard one of the Pentagon mooks throw out "deconflict"

Recently, we had "AmCits" and "RumInt" show up in the forum.

Then, there's that golden oldy of corporate America: "Think outside the box" - Listen, do you want to really demonstrate how you're special? Tell them you're going to think about the box.

Referring to problems as "challenges" - Umm, yeah, sparky, I understand what you said, and what you have there is not a "challenge." What you have there is a plain old, ordinary problem.

"Key enabler" What are you people? Drug addicts?

"Pre-meeting" Uh huh. Hey, Mister Coroporate super go-getter! Ever read Dante's Inferno? No reason, just asking. He mentioned a vacation spot I think is perfect for you.

I loathe this shit. The English language is capable of being remarkably descriptive. When employed correctly, a person can communicate quite effectively. All these buzzwords, milspeak, corpspeak- it's concept-obscuring horse shit. Do you want to communicate, or do you want to try to look like a cool-as-shit insider? Let's hear the stuff that bugs you. Load 'em up...