my boss loves to "incenticise" people

[ruthmollymummy]

surely its incentivise? But there is a red line under the word now I've typed it, am I wrong!?
my boss says incenticise aaaallllll the time; is it acceptable to slap her?

[Threadwworm]

You could incendiarise her.

[ruthmollymummy]

haha, I wonder if I could explain it to her before she went crispy?

[Tinker]

I think even if she said incentivise I'd still want to slap her.

[onebatmother]

both are loathsome (and equally incorrect?), but in truth I have never heard of 'incenticize'. A David Brent moment?

[asicsgirl]

onebat i like the sneaky 'z' you put into this hitherto unknown and rather freaky word. see how words become normalised? normalized?? stop this filth!!!

[bossybritches]

"incentivise" is another Yankee made up word I am sure

[MrsBadger]

Unfortunately 'incentivize' is in common use - makes me cross when there is a perfectly good word (incite) to do the job .

[AMumInScotland]

She should try to "motivate" you instead, it works much better!

[midnightexpress]

DP's old boss used to end meetings by asking if everyone was 'in agreeance'.

DP never slapped him though because he (the boss) was an American Football player. Which probably explains a lot.

[onebatmother]

z is okay surely?

[midnightexpress]

mrsB, doesn't incite have negative connotations, though?

[Tortington]

we give vouchers to residents who participate in certain things. we call this an incentive

i am not sure why this is wrong.

please explain.

[pointydog]

I think the verb incentivise is wanky jargon used by dullards. So obv 'incenticise' is just ridiculous.

[Tinker]

There's nothing wrong with calling something an incentive but making verbs out of nouns all the time is wanky American nonsense. My real pet-hate is "tasked"

[Katisha]

And progressing things - usually to the next level...

[DontCallMeBaby]

Argh. Has anyone else been upskilled? I am fiercely resisting being upskilled. I don't mind learning new skills, but upskilling sounds unpleasant, and possible painful.

[onebatmother]

I don't think it's the concept of an incentive itself which is winding people up, Custardo - it's the tranformation of the noun ('incentive') into a verb ('incentivise', which is sort of pop-management shite).. which has then, to add insult to injury, been turned into a mispronounced piece of pop-management shite ('incentisise')... which is pissing everyone off.

[Katisha]

It's unasseptable.

[onebatmother]

unassept-ible doncha mean katisha?
Is that your real name btw? I really hate all those babyname threads that mock Syeesha etc. I usually think they sound really nice. Incl katisha.

[Tortington]

so if i said " We incentivise our residents" would that be wrong.

[ruthmollymummy]

I think it is technically correct, our pedant friends seem to not like it though! I say it's alright!

[Katisha]

Onebat, thank you, but Katisha isn't my real name. She'd be known to aficionados of Gilbert and Sullivan (although probably not to aficionados of Gilbert o'Sullivan) as a misunderstood old harridan in The Mikado...

[MrsBadger]

custy I would say 'We offer our residents an incentive.'

[onebatmother]

damn
I am not a huge fan of light opera, it is true.

[Tinker]

It would be very wrong and very slappable custy.