The Corporate Language Manifesto: A Field Guide to What They Actually Mean

Every worker on Earth has sat in a meeting and heard someone say "let's circle back," and known, in their bones, that nobody was circling back to anything, ever. The Corporate Language Manifesto is the decoder ring for that moment - and for every other moment corporate life hands you a soft, vague sentence when what it actually means is something much harder, much shorter, and much more honest.Structured after a much older, much angrier pamphlet about class struggle, this book treats the modern office as its own economy - one that runs on euphemism the way factories once ran on coal. Across thirteen chapters, it translates the full range of office dialects: meeting-speak, layoff-speak, recruiter-speak, Slack-speak, and the peculiar poetry companies invent specifically for telling people they no longer have jobs. An A-to-Z glossary and a set of fully translated "field transcripts" - a real layoff email, a real dead-end meeting, a real Slack thread - round it out into a working field guide, not just a joke book.Equal parts satire and survival manual, The Corporate Language Manifesto is for anyone who has ever needed a plain sentence and gotten a deck instead.