We took an online course called "Introduction to Operational Excellence" this week. For the life of me, I couldn't tell you what it was about. That's really saying something, because it sounds like it should have been about "doing stuff awesome," which is kind of my thing. There seems to be a whole section of corporate America who are so far removed from the actual productive stream that they're free to spend their well paid time inventing vague fanciful phrases about how to make yourself better. And these always sound suspiciously like the kind of things cult leaders say.
At a certain level, corporate rhetoric becomes almost indistinguishable from the doctrine of the Church of Scientology.
It's come to my attention while learning the jargon of my new job that, according to Wiktionary, at least, the words "preventive" and "preventative" are equally valid and identical in usage. Naturally I have fallen into an instant and unwarranted dislike and distrust of those people who choose the less succinct four-syllable variant. Whenever one of my co-workers seems to stumble over the distinction, I prompt them helpfully that the word they're looking for is "preventatative."
Much of the work of the new job is done in a sprawling and poorly written database of insurance policies called "internet benefits at a glance" or IBAAG, for short. I've pointed out to more than one person that the tool is not actually accessible through the internet and suggested changing the common term to "database benefits at a glance."
No one seems to be biting on that one, though it's not clear whether they're on to me or not.
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