[Magdalen] New to Me.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

So the sales execs got incensed.  Or censed....

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I agree with, Jim. Incentivize is widely used in the business world.
> > Personally I find it abhorrent, but to avoid using it generally requires
> > more creative sentence structure than some business folks seem to be
> > capable of.
>
> My job is part of a sales division, although TBTG I'm no sales exec.
> But in sales meetings we're always hearing new plans to "incent" sales
> execs to sell various hot new offerings. Not even "incentivize"; just
> "incent." Conjures up for me an image of a small figure into which you
> put a penny (you put a "cent" "in," so you "incent") and it does
> stuff. OK, I'm odd, I know.
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>