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 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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<li>They’re fully invested <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">existentially</a> in their meaning like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticity_(philosophy)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">classical waiter</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_(existentialism)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Bad Faith</a>, have become a “<em>true manager</em>” right down to their core, and the light of conflict resolution, agile process, and “<em>dealing</em>” with high achievers³ shines brightly in their eyes.<br />
Ergo they fully believe the message and don’t understand what passive aggressiveness is, they’re just saying what they mean.</li>
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