Stakeholder

Fellow bureaucrats. More particularly, other people in and around the organisation who are paid to care less.

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.