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[horseback]

To return to the original subject, the word I have come to despise is "synergy".

Apparently, it is the business substitute for the concept that teamwork is better than solo work, especially if the one yowping about "synergy" is really just a parasite.

cheers

horseback

[Messaschnitzel]

How about "reinventing yourself", and using the word "associate", instead of "employee".

The "associate" reference reminds me of "sanitation engineering specialist" (garbage collector), and "petroleum transfer technician" (service station attendant).

And remember this: don't ever think that working at Starbucks is a dead end job. On the contrary, they are considered a valued "associate", and not just a mere "employee". Sometimes they have managed on rare occasions to work their way up the ladder to the lofty position of "BARISTA"!

[I_KG100_Prien]

I'll remember that the next time I'm placing a food order at a "McEstablishment" from one of their fine "McAssociates"

[Messaschnitzel]

Originally posted by I_KG100_Prien:
I'll remember that the next time I'm placing a food order at a "McEstablishment" from one of their fine "McAssociates"

Please place your order here:

Dane Cook - Burger King

[jarink]

Originally posted by Messaschnitzel:
and using the word "associate", instead of "employee".

I do IT support for a regional insurance company. We were recently instructed that instead of calling people in other departments "users", we will now refer to them as our "customers".

[NAFP_supah]

Originally posted by horseback:
To return to the original subject, the word I have come to despise is "synergy".

Apparently, it is the business substitute for the concept that teamwork is better than solo work, especially if the one yowping about "synergy" is really just a parasite.

cheers

horseback

Synergy is a term that is much misused but is actually a much older term that does have a more normal use in accounting. Synergy advantages from a merger or takeover for instance can be that when two companies merge they don't need two accounting departments, perhaps one slightly larger one but the rest of the employees in the accounting department can be sacked. Now ofcourse Synergy is a word used in managementtheories and by housewives seeking spirituality. These people barely understand the word synergy and thus use it for things it in no way applies too.

Accountingschool left me with a lasting hate for managementtheories. None of them have any real value, that is why there are so many of them. They are always presented as scientific fact which they are not. Each year some other new age ******ed baby boomer shows up with another semi-psychology filled babble speech and the upper echelon of management disposed to believing such crap falls for it and there are lot of companies go on a merry-go-round ride that generally leads nowhere but money spent on jack excrement.

The great thing about being a Financial is that mainly you are left out of this crap, I feel for the guys on the workfloor though because they are subject to this crap from the lower, and often less intelligent but through much more susceptical to this indoctrinal brainwashing and much more fanatical, management layer.