From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use. touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
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“Boeing whistleblower says he was told ‘frankly, to shut up’ after 3 years of raising aircraft quality concerns: ‘This is the hell that I was subjected to’”
“Instead of addressing his concerns, he said, Boeing brass shut him down, part of a broader trend within the company of brushing off safety concerns in the name of productivity and the bottom line.”
Powerful and influential for-profit companies, 100% support their whistleblower employees right? Who would want to be actively complicit with any other treatment of a whistleblower?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-whistleblower-says-told-frankly-214347933.html
Most employees would obviously not want to be identified as “actively complicit”. And, if too many employees became aware of unlawful or retaliatory treatment, the odds of one of them squealing or making a revealing mistake will increase.
A more likely path of being treated like “hell”, is to keep the intent and goal of such treatment limited to a few key individuals, and then systematically leverage other employees not acutely “in the know”, with workplace tasks that indirectly support the abusive treatment, until the desired end goal is achieved. Ugly, but it does occur and it can lead to high levels of stress, hardship, or worse for the subject of such abuse, whatever age that person is. We can do better.
In the United States in particular there have been not that many fatalities on either Boeing or Airbus flights in the last 20 years -- perhaps because a lot of these other factors are dealt with well thanks to FAA and other agency regulations and safety work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft_in_the_United_States