Radio Talking Book

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We turn now to an article from the New York Times, July 4, by Marilyn Katzman, Baffled by Office Buzzwords When my new supervisor passed by my desk and said, “I’ll have to schedule your ‘bilateral,’ ” I nodded and assumed a look that suggested I knew what he was talking about. It took some time before I was able to deduce that this would be a one-on-one meeting with my boss. Why didn’t he just say that? Wait, do we still say “boss?” In my new position, I was soon to realize that a knowing look, when cryptic corporate speak was heard, would be needed more often. It wouldn’t be the last time I would feel the need for translation assistance in a series of temporary