Do you speak "office speak"?

[neptunebob]

Speaking of an MBA, I know of an MBA scandal....

It might have made the national news. The daughter of the governor of West Virginia received an MBA degree from West Virginia University, but the Pittsburgh Post Gazette newspaper has found out that she is missing more than half of the classes and has a good executive job. The PG is having a field day over this and even has a special section about this scandal. All this kind of suggests two things to me about MBAs and people who have them:

1. If she is still able to do this job without half the classes, would anyone learn much if you had the classes?
2. Unlike a doctor, nurse, engineer, or even plumber or electrician, you must not learn much in class that would need to know to do your job. Even actors and musicians would need what they learn in their education or it shows.

Actually, I want to be wrong about all this. In PA, WVU is known mostly as a university you go to when you want to party and where they have sofa burning bonfires. If I had a son or daughter, I just could not let them go there, I would not take the chance.

Oh, and many more links where that came from!

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08125/879034-298.stm

 

[may63]

Thanks for the laughs and insights! Many of these phrases are thrown around my office.
I had a boss that was fond of saying "on the docket"...I don't think she even knew what a docket was (I had to google it myself before writing this).

 

[drhardee]

Having recently "transitioned" from the business of public education to the corporate world of the "Death Care" industry, I find that the edu-babble with which I was so grimacingly familiar ("outcome-based results","child-centered classroom" ) has been replaced by corporate newspeak. The manager of our funeral home loves to throw out "corpspeak", talking about "strategic growth targets", and "customer focused results"....for Christ's sake, we're selling caskets and funerals, not widgets!

But, the corporate death-care industry is as cut-throat and management top heavy as any Fortune 500 company..and I fear that it's more about the bottom line, budgets and the stockholders' returns than it is about the families we serve who are our daily bread and butter. But, time will tell.. I've only been there about 3 weeks full-time. I still have to make it through my 90 day new-employee probation period (another corporate "thing" I never had to put up with in public education) so I can get my health care benefits. I'll just keep on smilin' and sellin', smilin' and sellin'... I really do love the business I'm in..it's the corporate environment umbrella I could do without.

 

[oldhouseman]

drhardee,

welcome to Corporate America.

It's all about profits.

Try and make the customer think it's about them.

Get their money.

And you have done your job.

 

[oldhouseman]

And

the government is moving in that direction. I work in gov. I see it everyday.