When everyone suddenly started using “impressed” as an opener

A lot of corporate communication is people copying other people’s style. Around 18 months ago people at my company started calling people “resources”. Now everybody does it and doesn’t even notice how weird this is. Things like “I have talked to that resource”. Then there was another time when all managers suddenly said “I want to challenge that”. That lasted two years and then it went away. Another one was to ask ”are we aligned?” Lasted maybe a year before it fell out of fashion<p>I am sure the “impressed” thing will go away too in a while.

Hello from Sequoia Capital!<p>Hi, I&#x27;m a senior human acquisition engineer with [some dumb startup] who just raised an A round with Sequoia (yet to announce, please keep confidential).<p>Talking E2E for a second, would you like to hear about the great work we&#x27;re doing?<p>(1 day later)<p>Hey, bumping this up.

I really... really... REALLY hate &quot;reach out&quot;.<p>Tempted to add it as a filter, should eliminate a lot of email.

The main issue here is that a single buzzword won’t give your pitch the punch it needs. Specific, enticing detail is what pulls people in. Recruiters are loath to share too much, so these messages just become more of the same.

I understand your frustration with recruiters in general (those pesky bastards!), but do you really think using the word &quot;impressive&quot; is so bad?<p>Sometimes it&#x27;s just the right word for the situation. Sure, they&#x27;d probably be better off whipping out the old Thesaurus, but ultimately this seems like a non-issue.

&quot;Impressed&quot; is the &quot;blazingly fast&quot; of recruiters.

everything is a got damn sales pitch dammit