Do you all say process or process?

Process?

Okay.

Now, all three of us are in the U.S.

And in the kind of southeastern U.S., and at least in Texas, so it's its own region,

basically.

But I ask, because I once had a colleague, and we literally had this conversation and even almost a debate.

Because in the U.S., people generally will say process.

But outside the U.S., which for those in the U.S., it does, there is a world outside of corporate America.

In a very lovely world, honestly, if you ask people that happen to work there. But in the U.S., and if you just work in a U.S. organization or, like, in person, you may have never have thought of that. But outside of the U.S., a lot of people have different pronunciations of words the way that we pronounce it. And a big one, especially if you're in a function like HR, is process or process. And I just had just started at this role.

And so this was a global organization. And notably, we were not on a call with global colleagues.

But so we were talking. And this colleague is from the, she's from Georgia as Georgia as well, from Kentucky, obviously, but she's from Georgia. And so she's talking about something, and talking totally normally. And then all of a sudden, she kind of gets this tone and says, well, let's talk about the process. And for the life of me at first, it didn't register. And so I was like, the process, like, that person's name,

like, and I was like, oh, my God, process. And you know me. I can't just let shit go. And so we get through the call, I'm like kind of giggling, and I have a note to myself in addition to scribbles, like ask. So we get off the call and I was like, let me ask a question. I was like, why did you say process. And she said, well, we are a global organization. And so it's important to think about

pronunciation from that global. question. I was like, why did you say process? And she said, well, we are a global organization.

And so it's important to think about pronunciation from that global perspective. I said, I totally know. I said, I don't know what. You just kind of had this tone the way you said it. And here I am, new hire, digging, digging the hole, digging the hole. And she was looking to me. And she's like, no, I understand, but I just think it's important to be relatable. And I was like, I mean, for the record, the person we were talking to was like out of Dallas. Like we're totally good. I was like, but it was a process person. Right. And so I was like, I mean, I guess it's better than thinking about if you're talking to people in other geographies

and use that. Anyway, you'd think I'd take away the lesson and be like, okay, that's a fair point. Either I'd just stick with what I'm doing, live with on my own skin, and just keep same process, as I've said for, you know, 30-something years at that point, or start saying process like, I'd be like, Oh, that's a good tip with global colleagues.

But instead, every time we'd have a

conversation, I couldn't get out of my freaking head. And I would think to myself, like, where are they

located? Like, should I say process or process? Like all of this. And so in conversations,

sometimes I would vary. And then I'd catch myself and be absolutely like, oh my God, mortified

with myself, couldn't get past it. And so

there's a lot of those things. Like some people say tomato, tomato, but in the world of global

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