Where are the Corporate Grammar Police?
My company recently announced new training courses, and all employees are required to take three specific classes. The first of the classes is titled "Onboarding" (the other two are "Meeting Management" and "Managing Conflict"). At first read, I was thinking to myself "why are they teaching us how to get on a boat?" My second thought was "why the hell are they verbing a noun?"
In chatting with a co-worker about this today we had the following exchange:
Me: Still.. "Onboarding"??? What a horrible name.
Me: And verbing nouns, no less.
Them: i hate nouns being used as verbs like that
Them: there are some examples i'll ignore
Them: but in that case... that fucking sucks
Them: you can just shorten "verbing nouns" to "nouning"
Might as well use their own tools against them, eh? But isnt this shortening exactly the problem at hand?
Anyways, I was trying to come up with other names for this course, and I've come up with the following that I'm willing to post publically:
Borgification
[Company] Assimilation
[Company] ReEducation Camp
I'll try to keep an open mind and all but I suspect it will be several hours of wasted time.
In chatting with a co-worker about this today we had the following exchange:
Me: Still.. "Onboarding"??? What a horrible name.
Me: And verbing nouns, no less.
Them: i hate nouns being used as verbs like that
Them: there are some examples i'll ignore
Them: but in that case... that fucking sucks
Them: you can just shorten "verbing nouns" to "nouning"
Might as well use their own tools against them, eh? But isnt this shortening exactly the problem at hand?
Anyways, I was trying to come up with other names for this course, and I've come up with the following that I'm willing to post publically:
Borgification
[Company] Assimilation
[Company] ReEducation Camp
I'll try to keep an open mind and all but I suspect it will be several hours of wasted time.