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The work phrases that infuriate me

4:11Marco Montemagno · podcast RSS

Marco collects business phrases he considers worn out through overuse: being a market leader, caring about privacy, respecting customers or seeking experienced apprentices. He uses humour to contrast advertisements and slogans with actual work and behaviour. A dispute he recounts with a hosting provider illustrates the gap between polite language and customer treatment. His central concern is credibility: describing concrete actions says more than stock phrases any company could use.

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Marco collects business phrases he considers worn out through overuse: being a market leader, caring about privacy, respecting customers or seeking experienced apprentices. He uses humour to contrast advertisements and slogans with actual work and behaviour. A dispute he recounts with a hosting provider illustrates the gap between polite language and customer treatment. His central concern is credibility: describing concrete actions says more than stock phrases any company could use.

Key points

  • Generic wording in job advertisements can hide the work actually required.
  • Statements about privacy and customer respect lose force when behaviour fails to support them.
  • The hosting dispute is told from Marco’s personal perspective.
  • He ends by mocking claims of trust, dynamism and prestigious clients that leave the actual relationship unexplained.
Open the source: Le frasi sul lavoro che mi fanno imbestialire

Words to decode

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1glossary expression documented here

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Il grano / fare il grano

Money, or making money. This is common Italian slang that Marco uses when talking about pay, business or monetisation.

Across the reviewed archive: 107 items
#6 in the ranking

Dictionary entry

SWITCH GEARS. GET CURIOUS.

Reality has a sense of humour.

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