Opportunity, a.k.a. the "O - word"

Welcome to the first in a series of Monday attacks on politically correct verbiage. We have done everything we can to verbally transform the steaming pile of poo called a problem into something else. We called it an issue and someone decided this was too much like a problem. Then we called it a concern, but this caused foreheads to wrinkle in concern. Now what? Well, it's an "opportunity". Great we painted the terd and put a hat on it, so it can come to the meeting with everyone else. Why don't we just put it in a bucket, set it in the middle of the table and call it what it is? And no, I don't mean that we tell everyone that it is fragrant and promotes growth. Let's try having problems and solving them, just like math and science class. Plants grow better with fertilizer and we can't grow an open culture by avoiding the plain truth. Let's be fair issues and concerns, they are welcome to the party, as long as they come dressed in their own suits. In the end, the opportunity gets to go back to being something good that we look forward to gettiing.