{"id":361,"date":"2008-06-19T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T22:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-06-19T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T22:33:38","slug":"business-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Business-Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know that everyone jokes about the idiotic and purposely hyper-syllabic jargon in the business world.<\/p>\n

I’m on a conference call right now. RIGHT NOW.<\/p>\n

A colleague was asked, in nicer language than that below:<\/p>\n

“Did you do what you said you were going to do?”<\/i><\/p>\n

And she responded in exactly the following words:<\/p>\n

“To be honest, that fell off my radar.”<\/i><\/p>\n

I love it. I love preceding the meat of the statement with a promise of honesty. And I love blaming the radar, or the item that “fell,” or maybe even gravity itself for pulling the item down.<\/p>\n

And it’s radar. It’s not “my mind,” as in, “it slipped my mind.” Your mind is really your domain, but your radar? That’s not a personal thing. Hell, maybe your radar is broken. No one one blames you, or has you put away, for broken radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that everyone jokes about the idiotic and purposely hyper-syllabic jargon in the business world. I’m on a conference call right now. RIGHT NOW. A colleague was asked, in nicer language than that below: “Did you do what you said you were going to do?” And she responded in exactly the following words: “To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}