• Onboarding

    noun

    The corporate ritual of putting a new hire through a survival course where they are bombarded with presentations, a dictionary's worth of company jargon, namesake unskippable compliance videos, and complicated expense filing steps, typically ending with a request to pretend on LinkedIn to be excited about the new water bottle.


    HR: (on slack at 10 PM) Don't forget to post about your onboarding experience and exciting journey on LinkedIn. Let me know if you need any templates. ๐Ÿ™‚


    CaptainWTF on August 17, 2024

  • Product marketer

    noun

    A professional who contributes significantly to global warming by blasting enough email campaigns to emit as much CO2 as a small power plant to get a click-through rate of 0.5%.


    Podcast host: "As a product marketer, what's your mantra?"
    Product marketer: "Spray and pray!"


    karthik on August 14, 2024

  • Friend

    noun

    A person in a group who is not a best friend yet. Usually the one who gets stuck behind the group on the pavement because there isnโ€™t enough space to walk side by side.

    CaptainWTF on September 8, 2024

  • Adult

    noun

    A former child who works, complains about it, gets stuck in traffic, complains harder, pays bills, complains louder, pays taxes, complains to the whole world, and desperately longs for bedtime.


    "I am an adult now. I can grab my keys, take my car, go to that dessert shop, and eat whatever I want! WHY DOES IT FEEL ILLEGAL SOMEHOW?"


    karthik on August 31, 2024

  • Imperial units

    noun

    An ancient, unnecessarily complicated system of measurement predominantly used in the USA to confuse the rest of the world and shoot themselves in the foot.


    Jack: "You know bud, imperial system is quite practical. We don't need metrication!"
    Raman: "Yeah? Tell me how you lost the Mars Climate Orbiter again?"


    karthik on August 31, 2024