I'm transitioning my decisioning
by Roy Atkinson
Why take a perfectly good and useful word that everyone can understand and replace it with an affected, more complex word that everyone has to relearn? Here are some examples of words I can live, quite happily, without: decisioning - What happened to deciding, and who decided that it needed replacementing?
onboarding/offboarding - When did we lower hire? Who terminated terminate? Why are we in a ship, and where is it going? And if we are in a ship, are we shipping?
transitioning - We have a change management process, but we're transitioning it. Some of these new "ing" words are plural; I know, because took the trainings and came away with the learnings. Now, in contrast to the tendency to use words which end in "ing," in some cases, we are dropping the ending in favoring of some other wordinging: I'd like to have more compute next year, but I'm not sure I can make the ask, and I certainly don't know if they'll go for the spend. That's all my writings for now. I have to car to the airport and do parkings so I can be planing to my next meet.
onboarding/offboarding - When did we lower hire? Who terminated terminate? Why are we in a ship, and where is it going? And if we are in a ship, are we shipping?
transitioning - We have a change management process, but we're transitioning it. Some of these new "ing" words are plural; I know, because took the trainings and came away with the learnings. Now, in contrast to the tendency to use words which end in "ing," in some cases, we are dropping the ending in favoring of some other wordinging: I'd like to have more compute next year, but I'm not sure I can make the ask, and I certainly don't know if they'll go for the spend. That's all my writings for now. I have to car to the airport and do parkings so I can be planing to my next meet.
