Hmm apparently the phrase is “go to the mats” and the other one is a Godfather reference. English, how do you work.
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“Was that even a synecdoche?” I mean borderline since it stands for “human resources” but most people who use it probably don’t intend it that way since HR has grown its own meaning. English, how do you work.
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For someone from Europe, the American Football / Baseball references in business world are not very intuitive. - In the ballpark - Curveball - Off base - Touch base (?!) - Game changer - Kick off I would just nod in total confusion and later google those.
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If it makes you feel better I learned all of these from the Wall Street Journal, and then was very amused when I found out that actually hitting a ball in the ballpark is generally suboptimal.
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I agree on tldr but have been asked at several jobs to start providing one because it’s “not gonna get read”
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That framing is already poisonous. If it truly isn’t going to get read, then it is a misapplication of your time and talent to have you write it. If the company wants to conserve reader attention, we have a civilized word for this: summary.
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Business people that talk about technology as if it is one department within a company rather than integrated across an entire organization in many forms is big. Also big data and AI if there is no particular goal in mind or simple statistical analysis would work.
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resource as a singular in lieu of a human’s name is particularly nasty, as in e.g. “our eng resource”.
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If a manager calls me a “resource” I get to call them “overhead.”
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I would just like to stop being shot with emails.
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