Things people say at your firm
- Thread starter MiserableLawStdnt
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One of my co-workers used to respond to a lot of my ideas with ”This is wrong.” I used to get upset and start writing on the board explaining why the idea was actually decent. Then after a debate, he would say “You are right.” It took me two years to figure out that his “This is wrong” phrase really meant ”I don’t understand.”
some color (additional meaningless jargon intentional) on It is what it is: http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2008/02/it_is_what_it_is_but_what_is_it.html
Imagine the following conversation:
colleague: “it is what it is.”
me: “What is?”
colleague: “What?”
me: “what is it?”
colleague: “????”
stupid, awkward conversation continues until one person gives up and walks away, muttering “what an idiot!”
Imagine the following conversation:
colleague: “it is what it is.”
me: “What is?”
colleague: “What?”
me: “what is it?”
colleague: “????”
stupid, awkward conversation continues until one person gives up and walks away, muttering “what an idiot!”
Back in my engineering days, I worked at a firm which had been bought out by a Houston PE firm and had a new management team installed that was almost entirely from General Electric. They would regularly make comments about “GE pedigree” as in:
“He can’t do that job, he doesn’t have GE pedigree”.
Sad/funny part is that they were the worst-performing management team I have every witnessed, by far, and left behind a string of failed acquisitions and a big loss to company value. Plus they were an unethical bunch. Still sends shudders down my back to think of it…
“He can’t do that job, he doesn’t have GE pedigree”.
Sad/funny part is that they were the worst-performing management team I have every witnessed, by far, and left behind a string of failed acquisitions and a big loss to company value. Plus they were an unethical bunch. Still sends shudders down my back to think of it…
man i love the phrases….examples given in converation form 
1) why is your desk so messy? It is what it is.
2) remember to go to the meeting tomorrow morning. Heard that!
3) you got the promotion. Juicy!
4) that financial report was nice! Mhmm get it bab
5) did you get the financial repot? Mhmm got it bab
well, thoes are the ones off the top of my head that i use the most anyways lol
1) why is your desk so messy? It is what it is.
2) remember to go to the meeting tomorrow morning. Heard that!
3) you got the promotion. Juicy!
4) that financial report was nice! Mhmm get it bab
5) did you get the financial repot? Mhmm got it bab
well, thoes are the ones off the top of my head that i use the most anyways lol