I want to get rid of "onboarding".

Ooh, yes please.

ION - I've been catching up online and now I can't remember where people were discussing lost / found cell phones. Anyway, there was a document at the hospital that recommended putting a contact in your cell phone as I.C.E. (In Case of Emergency) with the phone number of whomever you want contacted.

I'm not sure how much it has caught on with the general public, but at least the ER staff will know who to call if you're ever in an accident.

Anyway, there was a document at the hospital that recommended putting a contact in your cell phone as I.C.E. (In Case of Emergency) with the phone number of whomever you want contacted.

My cell phone actually had that contact pre-programmed in, and it's on top of all of my other contacts (obviously, I had to input the actual numbers, but the entry is already there).

Onboarding sounds like a torture technique.

Onboarding sounds like a torture technique.

I was JUST going to say that!

sparky your niecephew is amazing! How old are they?

I want to get rid of "onboarding"

ah crap. I hadn't noticed how obnoxious this word is until just now. And I'm the hiring manager. crap.

Onboarding sounds like a torture technique.

It kinda was. When I went through the new hire orientation (which yes, they call NEO here), every time one of the HR munchkins chirpily said "onboarding", I would make a quiet growling noise. At the first break, the person sitting next to me asked "So, writer or editor? You've got to be one or the other, with that reaction to "onboarding"".

I was thinking that onboarding sounded like pirates. Which I guess could be welcoming, if you squint hard and tilt your head just right.

I actually got stuck in a meeting today because my brain was refusing to let me say "leverage", but also refusing to come up with another word. Luckily, the other people in the conversation were linguistically Like Us.

So walking the plank is offboarding?

So walking the plank is offboarding?

Works for me.