Business idiot-speak

I am sick and tired of idiots in business who now believe it is vital to find new words for everything. What is wrong with the English language as we understand it? What makes these fools think that they can improve something that has been formed by millions of people over thousands of years. Now, as anyone who survives meetings by playing "Buzzword Bingo" can testify, things have got silly. Someone told me recently how he had sat on an interview panel, next to the "Human Resources" lady. Now I find this astounding but she was, it seems, crossing off buzzwords from a list and awarding points as they were used! Is it any wonder that it seems to be impossible to get any organisation in the UK to do anything correctly, when the yardstick we use to measure people's skills is whether their can pad out their sentences with such moronic nonsense as "leveraging", "ideas shower", "stakeholders" and other such substitutes for actually thinking before speaking. And did I mention "Human Resources" - what cretin came up with that one? To me, a resource is a computer, a chair or a carpet tile. I do not want to be a resource, human or otherwise. I want to be considered a person, with the needs and problems of a person. I used to be looked after by a "Personnel Department" without ever suffering as a consequence of the relatively simple name. What is even scarier is that, once one cretin had come up with "Human Resources" every other cretin in a Personnel Department jumped on board and copied it! Why? What's the benefit? Can someone who copied this idiocy explain why they did it please. And the stupidity has spread seemlessly into recruitment. Read some job advertisements and you'll see what I mean. I went to a meeting with a "Recruitment Consultant" (what a joke of a title) last week. The reason he wanted to meet was that this "consultant" had no idea what any of the terms in a job description meant and he wanted someone to explain it to him, so that he could decide if they knew enough about it to do the job! Have you noticed that every job description now requires "Excellent written and verbal communication skills." In your day to day dealings with people in their jobs, how many would you say had such excellent skills. I would guess at about 5% or less. So why is this considered one of the most important criteria for most jobs, given that we seem to be producing an entire generation of semi-literate kids with little or no ability in mental arithmetic? This rant could go on and on so I'll make myself stop, with a verbatim quote from a job agency, which for me sums it all up. The agency in question is Fleet Personnel of Bournemouth, and they wrote: "Excellent communication and relationship building skills both written and verble via telephone." What could I possibly add ... ?