36 corporate terms decoded into economic language. Each entry names the extraction mechanism, identifies what it costs you, and gives you a documentation prompt to start building your evidence.
The scope of your role increased. Your title did not. Your compensation did not. The word “stretch” implies development. The math says extraction. If the assignment expanded your deliverables without expanding your pay, it was not a growth opportunity. It was free labor with a flattering name.
The word competitive does not mean fair. It means benchmarked. Benchmarked against a market that has systematically undervalued your function for decades. A competitive salary in a rigged market is still a rigged salary…
Growth implies future value. But the work is happening now. The revenue impact is happening now. The only thing deferred is your…
You have been told you are “valued” while your compensation stayed flat. You have been given “stretch assignments” that expanded your work without expanding your pay. You have been praised for your “impact” in meetings where your name was not mentioned.
The Corporate Extraction Dictionary™ does not fix this. It names it. In economic language. With the precision required to document it, price it, and stop accepting it.
This is the vocabulary layer. The Value Audit™ is the documentation layer. The Dictionary tells you what happened. The Audit tells you what it cost.
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