Garbage Language: Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? | By Molly Young | New York Magazine 🔗 ✍️ 🗣 👥 🌆 🤷‍♀️

If workplaces are full of communal irritation and communal pride, they are less often considered to be places of communal mysticism. Yet when I started that job and began picking up on the new vocabulary, I felt like a Mayan circa 1600 BCE surrounded by other Mayans in the face of an unstoppable weather event that we didn’t understand and had no choice but to survive, yielding our lives and verbal expressions to a higher authority.