Stakeholder

Fellow bureaucrats. The word for that sensation you get when you reflect that, in an organization full-bloodedly committed to the precepts of free market capitalism — an imaginary world in which there is no such thing as bureaucracy — is controlled, managed and populated by individuals whose predominant function is to devise and then oversee the completion of bureaucratic functions; that has devised a specialized dialect to obscure the simplicity and pointlessness of many of these bureaucratic tasks — that word is irony.