Passive Aggressive Language In The Workplace
<p>It’s most likely in email, occasionally in messages, but rarely in person — unless the miscreant is completely shameless.</p>
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<p>The modern dysfunctional corporate workplace is awash with everything from condescending messages affixed to noticeboards, toilet doors, and monitor screens¹ to ambiguously offensive emails, messages, and HR droid PowerPoints².</p>
<p>The prose contained therein is something of a work of art and it’s sometimes really quite hard to decide whether or not it’s done on purpose for, as we all know, true passive-aggressive wording is an art form cultivated by the truly cynical, damaged, progressive engineer who has spent way too much time in the Grand Game of Software Engineering.</p>
<p><em>*cough*<br />
<looks down at the keyboard></em></p>
<p>Moving on, I suspect that the purveyors of such prose come from one of the following three broad groups:</p>
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