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DetlefK

(16,565 posts)
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 12:33 PM Sep 2024

Here are some useful buzzwords you need if you want a career in corporate: [View all]

Yes, they are real. Actual corporate buzzwords. Feel free to google them.

I found them via this Youtube-channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@JoshuaFluke1

"Anti-Hustle"
Translation: A job that allows for work-life-balance.

"NATO-applying"
Translation: A person applies for a job, intending to work precisely as laid out in their contract, and to not put in unpaid extra-effort.

"Quiet quitting"
Translation: The employee works precisely as laid out in their contract, and does not put in unpaid extra-effort.

"Quiet Constraint"
Translation: The employee does not put in unpaid extra-effort to solve a colleague's work-place problem.

"Coffee badging"
Translation: People who work in home-office are lazy bastards who only clock in at their office to have a coffee there.

"Dry Promotion"
Translation: The employee gets unpaid extra work.

"Loud quitting" / "Grumpy staying"
Translation: The employee openly criticizes their job and their company.

"Career cushioning"
Translation: The employee is emotionally cheating on the company by having a back-up plan in case they get fired.

"Rage-applying"
Translation: The ungrateful employee is unhappy with their current job and is sending out multiple job-applications because they want to leave as fast as possible, without a care as to how this might affect the company.

"Overemployment"
Translation: The employee is emotionally cheating on his company by having multiple jobs.

"Quiet cutting"
Translation: The company intentionally makes your job living hell with the goal to motivate you into quitting your job.

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