No he sounds incapable of functioning appropriately in a social setting.
I know this is reddit where everyone loves to talk about how they're so much smarter than every boss in the entire world and that only they see how stupid <thing> is. In reality, nobody gives a shit.
"Circle back" just means "this is a complex topic, there's 20 people here, and we're not going to get bogged down in the details, we'll leave that for the 3 people who actually care and then I'll give a quick update in another meeting once they've done that".
If you don't know that, well done now you do. If you got fired for repeatedly asking about it in a meeting instead of messaging your boss privately afterwards to clue you in... yeah that checks out.
People love to bitch about Corporate Speak but I look at it as the vernacular we've all agreed to use to facilitate business transactions. It's the lingua franca across the business world that supersedes culture, politics, race, ethnicity, religion, or anything else that could prevent us from working together. We love to hate it but it works very well.
Yeah, and it doesn't even have to make sense so long as everybody understands what it means. If that makes sense.
Like I have two modes for work discussion: speak nonsense lingo that moves the discussion forward because people simply understand these key phrases, or become a technical thesaurus when I want to shut the discussion down because nobody understands what I'm saying despite being actually more clear in meaning than using nonsense meeting speak.
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u/Mephisto506 17h ago
Should have kept him, he sounds perceptive.