With bright eyes and bushy tails, fresh college grads leap into the workforce, hoping to land a cushy corporate job to line their pockets, pay off their student loans, and beef-up their future resume. Entry-level, cheaply-dressed, and full of ambition, these new additions to the workforce don’t realize they’re entering foreign lands and will soon be forced to learn a completely new, and totally useless language: Corporate jargon. 

Soon, they’ll be decoding cryptic emails from their boss promising to «circle back» and «move the needle,» all while shouldering a workload that would crush upper management’s productivity with a single PDF. Continually questioning management’s efficacy, new hires soon realize that it’s not only the employees in the corporate world who are dysfunctional, it’s the entire office lexicon. 

Broken at its core, corporate lingo has drifted so far from human communication that it’s now devoid of meaning, causing younger generations to question their superiors and take matters into their own Slack channels. If emails are being sent and meetings are being held that are completely meaningless, what is actually being accomplished in the corporate world? 

Via u/twiteeyappa