My parents’ generation all had jobs. Today’s workers, lucky creatures that we are, have “roles”. At least we did – until the financial crisis hit. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘inflationary language’
“Roles” versus “jobs”, or how the economic crisis has exposed an insidious corporate euphemism
Monday, June 15th, 2009Job titles, hyphens and inflationary language
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Sometime last year our traffic wardens became “civil enforcement officers”. Actually, there had been an intermediary stage I’d missed when they were known as “parking attendants”.
Such inflationary language is, as ever, clearly laughable. (more…)
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