Plausible deniability, as employed by high-ranking people, is one of the tools they use to fry your brain. Does your boss use it?
Look at this words: “…it almost ought to be illegal.” Somebody has said that. Your brain is in a microwave because “almost” is a word disingenuously used to deny, but your brain has registered as much as 99% of the rest of it. If you’re looking for more examples from Trump, The Washington Post did an analysis here last year.
“This technique, in terms of regularity of use of late, has been closely followed by use of a word to attach a clear but subtle change in meaning to what seems to be a simple unequivocal message. The reason for using this technique is to enable the respondent to be equivocal at a later stage if their lines of defense have been stripped away.” From Change Factory, an Australian-based consulting firm.
Carefully placed words, such as almost, invariably, lately, uniquely (“uniquely qualified”) are used all of the time to send an obfuscating message. Bosses are hard at work.
Are you in a place where bosses play the Good-Cop, Bad-Cop game ? I mention that in the Book of the Underdog…
Quote of the day: “Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.” -Constantin Brancusi
We root for women as much as we root for men here at the underdog blog, and I hope women will find this video useful.
I also got an IQ test for you today.
Plausible deniability at work:
Boss: I know that you will do this assignment.
Outcome: Didn't ask, but you did it anyway. It wasn't required of you.