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points by abustamam 3 days ago | 0 comments

That's wild! I wonder how far I could get at a place like that by saying random things trigger me, like "don't call it a sprint because I once tripped and broke a tooth while sprinting" or something like that. Make an entire organization change their jargon and use fun words like "this is our two week adventure!"

[–] sa48k 3 days ago

I once told someone that they shouldn't use 'flesh out an idea' because it's offensive to skeletons.

[–] walthamstow 2 days ago

In a previous job, in whiteboard sessions, one of the team would always refer to something as the "final solution" and I could never tell whether he was doing it on purpose or not

[–] lostlogin 1 day ago

Volkswagen blundered into a version of this when the CEO pushing for more productivity declared something like ‘work sets you free.’

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47566898

[–] lazide 2 days ago

Playing the long con

[–] eecc 2 days ago

Why not try… master is now main after all

[–] kavok 2 days ago

Yeah but in that case main is shorter, still understandable, and has the same autocomplete. It’s actually an improvement.

[–] The-Old-Hacker 2 days ago

I once had a software manager who used "master/child". He had a previous stint as a teacher at an English private school.

[–] eastbound 3 days ago

That may be the game that others are playing. I always wonder how much of this is other countries paying agents to spoil the productivity of the West, as a retaliation for unmerited wars we do to them.

[–] kwertyoowiyop 2 days ago

This is actually a great high concept for a comedy.

[–] gbuk2013 2 days ago

A (US based) PM on our team really liked to use “backlog grooming” until we sent him a few BBC articles about the connotations - he immediately changed his lingo :)

[–] olyjohn 2 days ago

I am offended by the connotations of "BBC," it makes me feel inadequate. Please change your lingo.

[–] Lio 23 hours ago

There's nothing wrong with the phrase "grooming". We groom lots of things including ourselves as in personal grooming.

This whole language purity test, whether from the left or right, is just a load of performative bollocks.

[–] roosterIllusi0n 2 days ago

These stories feel like someone purposely doing HR wrong because they hate equality or fairness.