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"In a global world...." Eddie Mayer (?) interrupted her and said "Well you can't argue with that!"
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
At my current work the one that irks me most me is "JFDI" - "just fucking do it" - because it's always said by someone with no idea what "it" in this context is, let alone how to "do it". Usually I'll have brought up a complex technical issue for which there is no simple solution, and presented a few options for how we might overcome it, and "JFDI" doesn't really answer how you're going to deal with the problem. It's not a useful alternative. It's not an authorisation to go for one of the solutions. I've been thinking of responding with "YDUTIT?"
My own "favourite" was one about a new screensaver, where the corporate droid who sent it claimed to be "totally excited by the prospect of leveraging platform idle time to portray a positive image of the enterprise vision".
Since then I have added an inbox rule that deletes anything with "leverage" or variations thereof in it.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
'With my performance hat on this is a good idea but with my quality control hat on there are concerns and with my HR hat on it would also leave us vulnerable. But with my risk hat on I can see this is problematic so I need to put my management hat on and say no.'
Sir Humphrey Appleby in the Yes Minister episode "The Devil You Know"
I tend to make that sort of thing up on the spot and assume no-one will call my bluff. I'm sure I worked it out at the time. Hmm.
"You Don't Understand The Issue, Then?" That seems plausible. Not sure it's what I meant at the time though.
I'm going to plead the sleepy thing too then.
Although people generally know what the acronym refers to, most/all the people don't actually know what the letters stand for any more and get irritated when you actually dare to ask what it actually means.
Fan Coil Unit. I even know what one is, what it does and why it needs to be where they'd drawn it, and still I didn't twig. I'd never heard it abbreviated before.
Anyhoo the guy comes and goes and afterwards we discover he tested stuff he shouldn't have, unplugging the CCTV system and losing our security records for 24 hours. Some angry emails flying about this now with variations on PAT, Pat, Pac, Park, Past and Pat's testing. Now, PAT testing is not part of our jargon at all but we seem to be so used to the idea that jargon is acceptable no one seems to have the foggiest what it actually does mean and are still batting it about.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Best ever acronym is
DILLIGAF
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)