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sueinphilly
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29 Apr 2014, 9:36 am

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/arc ... ak/361135/

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29 Apr 2014, 1:40 pm

sueinphilly wrote:
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/04/the-origins-of-office-speak/361135/

If you've ever worked in an office, you will like this article.
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Which is part of the reason American business is vilified in the rest of the world. Of all the bullsh*t that goes on in the office, the idea of buzzwords and empowerment are what has drug down productivity in America. Whatever happened to the concept of work, or be fired.

Don't even get me started on incentive programs to increase productivity. I am firmly of the view the only incentive a person needs is getting a paycheck every week. Incentive programs are usually geared to those that play the game. A hell of a lot would get done in a business if it weren't for all the game-playing.



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30 Apr 2014, 6:32 am

I'm a veteran of the office crap

9 years of computer programming in the 1980s
almost 23 years in the Dept of Defense of the good ole USA

I have been on full time medical telework (meaning I work from home full time) for almost 4 years because I CANNOT be in the office environment. I'm not immune to the politics of office nonsense. And nobody does buzzwords 'better' than the government.

I have 7 more years of this (at the most, I will retire early if they ever let us do so w/o penalty to our pension)
I am teetering on applying for medical retirement because the nonsense that has gone on for the last 10 years with the software they have forced on us is killing me mentally and taking a fierce toll on my physically as well

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pen ... icle/part3

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pen ... aphica.png
look at the last line of this chart. that is who I work for. yup 5 BILLION dollars on the worst piece of software I have EVER seen (and I have a programmer's mentality, though I haven't coded in many years)

FWIW, the company doing our software is the same on that just got the Healthcare.gov contract, Accenture