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?

You could incendiarise her.

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

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

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

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!!!

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

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

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

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.

z is okay surely?

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

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.

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

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"

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

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.

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.

It's unasseptable.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

It would be very wrong and very slappable custy.