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Another phenomenon is quite the mouthful too, so follow me closely now:
  Buzollution: pronounced Buz-ol-lution, coming from the words Buzz (the latest information within an industry or a locale), and Pollution (the act of polluting something, especially the natural environment).  It’s the notion that you need to keep repeating the same phrases and jargon that others have come up with such as “metrics, synergy, vision, SOP, SLA, action item, Best Practice, and etc.  Welcome to the wonderful world of words that make simple thoughts and concepts turn into melodramatic managerial banter.  Yes, what would life be without catch phrase repeated constantly to avoid any real communication?
  So a very common process, task, or job can be completely lost due to the use of buzz words and corporate jargon to the point where explaining what you do can’t even be explained by those that “supervise” you.  Yes, those that control your very work existence at times haven’t a clue what’s involved in your day to day “things to do” schedule.  Makes you wonder, eh?  The best is when those that manage completely lose track of the details that comprise your job and when they ask questions about the most mundane detail you have to stop yourself from saying “You’re kidding, right?”  Granted not all management have succumbed to this form of lobotomizing, but beware one day they know what they’re talking about and next their spouting words like a corporate-vocabulary waterfall. 

  Though I don’t have any ill will toward the practice of improving job processes, but I find the process to improve it almost as shoddy as the initial process that was the intended target “improvement”.  It also seems that said improvements need to be watched over else management will twist them back to the “old ways” cause their more comfortable in how things are done “pre-improvement”.  Of course, if they were aware of how things needed to be done, versus what their comfortable with keeping track of perhaps they would crave change as much as the workers. So, beware the jargon that makes you wonder what happen to the English language and if you ever want to end the conversation quicker than just repeat the last question spoken to you back to the person that asked it (perhaps slightly reworded – you don’t want to look stupid now) and watch their brain run around in circles like a dog after its own tail.