Incentivize (was RE: Weird words)

Subject: Incentivize (was RE: Weird words)
From: "Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:37:50 +0100

<twitch> <twitch>

I best remember 'incentivize*' from a company meeting a couple of gigs
back, where they were talking about how to 'incentivize' their
employees.

I recall thinking at the time that paying us the three months of back
pay they owed us might have been a start...

S.
*Of course, over here we'd spell it 'incentivise'

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Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author

exony


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>Behalf Of Suzanne Chiles
>Sent: 05 October 2006 19:53
>To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>Subject: Re: Weird words
>
>My last gig was as a software trainer in a Marketing Department at
>Microsoft. You can't beat people in Marketing for making up words. I
tried
>really hard to forget most of them, but the one I can't seem to shake
is
>"incentivize" as in "We're going to incentivize the customer by giving
them
>a 50% cost reduction on their monthly license."
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