Passive Aggressive Language In The Workplace

<p>The modern dysfunctional corporate workplace is awash with everything from condescending messages affixed to noticeboards, toilet doors, and monitor screens&sup1; to ambiguously offensive emails, messages, and HR droid PowerPoints&sup2;.</p> <p>The prose contained therein is something of a work of art and it&rsquo;s sometimes really quite hard to decide whether or not it&rsquo;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 /> &lt;looks down at the keyboard&gt;</em></p> <p>Moving on, I suspect that the purveyors of such prose come from one of the following three broad groups:</p> <ol> <li>They&rsquo;re fully invested&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">existentially</a>&nbsp;in their meaning like the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticity_(philosophy)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">classical waiter</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_(existentialism)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Bad Faith</a>, have become a &ldquo;<em>true manager</em>&rdquo; right down to their core, and the light of conflict resolution, agile process, and &ldquo;<em>dealing</em>&rdquo; with high achievers&sup3; shines brightly in their eyes.<br /> Ergo they fully believe the message and don&rsquo;t understand what passive aggressiveness is, they&rsquo;re just saying what they mean.</li> </ol> <p><a href="https://medium.com/codex/passive-aggressive-language-in-the-workplace-9c5beadb314b">Visit Now</a></p>