A Justified End to Buzz Word Use?

Reminds me of the reference "You'll be lucky if you can get this person to work for you".

Bravo, for the word artistry. Awesome!

I try NOT to use buzz words. As i , sometimes, have to explain technical results, data and so forth to people who are management or bean counters i have learned to keep it simple (KISS) and use examples that they would understand.

Using a buzz word only means you can not truly express yourself.

One of my biggest sticking points in my working life has been the validity of 'Credentials' (indoctrination over aplicable working knowledge and skill as I came to understand it)

Years ago when I went back to college as a older than average student for a electrical Engineering degree the primary driving force behind it wasn't just that I felt a natural passion for the practice of engineering but largely from personal hands on experience of having worked with real engineers at past employments by being the people who worked between them and the regular workers being I had the knowledge and capacity to speak and understand what they were saying and translate that into common speak our company goons could understand (then would only ignore and screw up anyway).

Now the thing was of the engineers I worked around of various disciplines what made me want to join them was simple. About half of them were interesting very intelligent people who I would have loved to work with and learn from every day.

The other half, well, lets just say they gave me every reason to feel that if those morons could hold those jobs I could too. (rather like internet forum communities, and too many other aspects of life and dealing with people, have shown themselves to be.)

Half are wonderful amazingly smart and accomplished people I want to work with so I can learn from and the other half give a person every reason to think there is something drastically wrong with this world given what they get paid and credit for despite how absurdly inept, dishonest or utterly useless they are.

So as far as I am concerned there are two types of credentials in this world held by two very different sets of people. One is the credentials of being able to prove they know how to do their jobs well.

and the other is those who have a piece of paper that say that only they get to do something even if they are the wrong/worst/least technically qualified person to have doing it.

Every profession has its own bell curve.

Theres a Bell Curve and then there's a finely tuned narrow band bandpass filter curve.

There's buzz word, and then there's acronyms... gotta love them coming from right person.

Funniest I've ever heard is 'Teamworker'. I could give translations, but they would get deleted as being a bit blunt.

Back in high school our basketball coach said thee was no 'I' in team.

I pointed out that there was an 'M' and a 'E' and that spelled "ME' (Being that basically how our team was anyway. Two 'ME' players and the rest of us to fill out the group.)

I ran a lot that day, not like we did much else anyway. Rather thought he wanted a track team not a basketball team being working with the ball was about the last thing we did in practice anyway hence the two guys who could do something with it were the 'ME' part of the team.

There is no "I" in team, but two in "Idiot"

I'm a lifelong English class flunkie so without a spell check program running there are a lot of letters (extra and missing) in most of my words.

This is just like the psychology test, I hate to say people has prescription of who you are and what are your potentials and limits are by just mere cliche of what you said.

The fact is, people are always given 2 sets of option everytime. And by random thoughts you could end up preferring one or discarding both and that alone is sort of complicated.

The fact is people can easily prejudge someone and easy to fault find. When people dislikes one, there are probably million of permutation of set of negatives they can throw to him/her.

But there are those who speaks in real action and wits and nice guys too just like rixter.

I always thought that disciplines create buzzwords to sound important and exclude the uninitiated. Even acronyms should be supported with a full explanation if you really want to communicate with the people who may have an interest in what you are saying.

Andries

I turned "Recruiting Buzzwords" into an image: