How to professionally say (2022)

That’s nice to say but there’s a dark underbelly of quietly firing people who don’t quite fit the team culture to achieve such strong relationships. Not always and not immediately, but eventually you either have a black sheep slowly bring your team down or you fire them.

Basically the office equivalent of the plot to Hot Fuzz.

The possibility for healthy candor is the result of a trusting relationship.

In the absence of trust, one often needs to resort to passive, blameless, less direct language.

So I work on creating the trust and noting where it is impossible so I can adjust.

Who defaults to corporate speak is often an indication to how much they can be trusted.

I'm like this too, and was on a team with another fella like this for a few years. It was great, our other team members thought we absolutely hated each other and didn't understand why we hung out every Friday after work to play board games. It's certainly not a common attitude in the workplace though.

I guess I'm the opposite. If you're working with me, please use nicer and kinder language when talking to me.

Totally agree with you on this, it was meant to be satirical but I started to realize that there are many places and people to which these type of conversation is really the only medium to communicate, its sad and in an ideal world I would want that people communicate directly without the need of twisting the words, but I am happy that you advocate and appreciate direction communication over something like this.

Thanks, very interesting read about PDI and the cultural differences.

Speaking for myself, I have great interest in living / working in western Europe, namely Netherlands or Denmark, but as someone living in Japan for a decade and appreciating their polite communication and respect for personal boundary, I'm concerned if I would enjoy life in an environment with more straightforward communication.

Based on the ambiguity of your comment, it amusingly could mean either the "unprofessional" or the professional version.

Why would someone be judged on their first day on the job? Many people are very nervous and not their best version.

American white-collar workers, to be specific; communications among blue-collar workers is usually far more direct.

This is a pet peeve of mine: the whole first half of the sentence is unnecessary. If something doesn’t come as a surprise then it was predicted.

That said this is satire, and saying it twice does make the joke better.

As means per. Anyone saying “as per” is deliberately trying to sound pompous.

Definitely not serious --- unless you actually want to sound like a stereotypical bureaucratic corporate drone.

There is a reverse toggle as well :)