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Old 11-09-2005, 03:37 PM
asofel asofel is offline
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Default please stop using ASAP incorrectly

Is it so hard? Seriously, why can't people communicate effectively and clearly. When every request, command, order, bs need is "ASAP!!" it kind of loses its effectiveness, huh...

Is it part of "How to Manage for Dummies" or something? "Just tell them ASAP by CLOB and your ROI and EOY estimates will be AOK!!" Conversely, don't tell me "when you get a chance" when you actually mean right away.

What is so [censored] hard about this?

There are only a few possible time units here people.

1. This very second, drop everything.

2. As soon as your done with your current task.

3. Sometime later today.

4. Tomorrow/X days in future

5. The [censored] future

They're all pretty descriptive. I'm sure we could hold an unnecessary meeting and come up with a whole bunch of cute abbreviations for them that'll make some office monkey feel like they accomplished something freakin fabulous.

If I get another "oh [censored] I need you to build this system ASAP as the 30,000 emails we sent out last night have gotten some responses" I'm going to SCKMBes...ASAP


quote from email: "Prior to starting on rtf i received some hits regarding my mass email so we need to fake the mgmt part asap"
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