Perhaps this is a cultural thing, but doublespeak seems to be prevalent even in casual conversation

  • Maeve@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    People get mad at you when you do that. I’m actually shocked at how many do.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, they might get mad, but that’s on them. If they said what they actually meant, things would go a lot smoother.

      Communicate clearly instead of expecting me to do codebreaking.

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        1 year ago

        Once you achieve a certain level of not giving a fuck, just repeat their statement back to then in plain language and they will usually either storm off, freeing you from the conversation, or they will get the point, freeing you from at least the tedious part of the conversation.

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          1 year ago

          This is my favorite way to deal with management.

          So you want me to disable a safety feature to help speed up production?

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        1 year ago

        I agree; so strange what we value with words so often differ with what we value with our action or inaction.