https://vanilla.shipoffools.com/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:34:31 +0000 en Words — Ship of Fools https://vanilla.shipoffools.com/discussion/6950/words-we-love-to-hate Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:40:50 +0000 Hell sionisais 6950@/discussions Anyway, my first word is “robust”, particularly in the sense of policies and especially in HR-Speak, where it is used, in my experience, to justify hard, ie, pig-headed decisions, that are legal, but barely decent. It’s astonishing how anti-bullying policies can be found in just about every workplace, but the management is all but exempt.]]>