Monday, August 24, 2009

Photoessay #816 - Jargon


This image (stolen from somewhere) is more aggressive than I first searched for. My first interpretation was that this person had to eat all of this painful jargon possible from the back end of an animal. But then I saw that the jargon came from his own lips along with the attendant confusing feedback loops.

Maybe my first interpretation came from how I've felt today.

Lately, I'm dealing with the ups and downs (mostly downs) with my job situation. It seems bad, then it seems better, then it doesn't. My goal truly is to be able to ride it out without too much distress. But, if my distress level gets too high, I'm gone. I've promised myself that.

I'm stunned with the jargon aspect. How one thing really means other. Doublespeak.

I feel frustrated. Particularly with the repeated charge leveled against me that "You're not accepting of change" when, to me, it seems like I'm always trying to get things moved from their old tired moorings to make some progress. But the subtext is "you bring up inconvenient things, you question the company line and you're too old".

Does that sound familiar? At what point do you just hang it up?

Such an aggressive image, the teeth, the snarl, the glare, the screaming red color, the sharp arrows.

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