Euch, i'll be honest my manager is a really great guy - he's warm and caring and fun to be around. But he is soooooooo institutionalised - everything he says is in jargon.
A few weeks ago i was asked by someone else to put together a flow chart setting out the evidence development for a strategy. He then starts going on about how we need a "theory of change paper" to go over all the aspects of the development, sends me a tonne of reading on theory of change which makes zero sense to me and i try and write up something for him. Only for him to say no and pass it on to someone else as i had a lot else on my plate) who then just does a simple flow diagram and hes like "yes that's exactly what i wanted".
So i fed back to him that it would have been easier to just stick with "i want a flow diagram" rather than introduce this whole theory of change thing and talking in jargon to me leaving me confused.
He said "fair enough i forget not everyone's done a strategy before".
I've worked for this department for 11 years i have done plenty of strategies and have never come across this before. I tell him this and he tells me others have developed things wrong. I say no just using different, simpler language.
I really wanted to tell him he's being a patronising prick.