TissPee's definitions
When an incompetent employee makes continuous, connected, inefficient email requests of a top employee, each one followed by another like a never-ending Matryoshka doll. The expert answers the question or provides the information and the asker makes an follow-up request that could easily have been made as part of the initial question, not unlike a three-year-old in a “Why?” fatal embrace.
It is the electronic version of someone who won’t leave your office, and an example of modern corporate inefficiency. It is also the reason why top people need firewalls to prevent them from bombardments of stupidity. In the past, it was the live executive assistant or receptionist. Now, since most experts are not executives and don’t have administrative assistants screening their email, bumbling, disorganized employees can waste large gobs of (presumably more expensive) time with incomplete request after incomplete request.
It is the electronic version of someone who won’t leave your office, and an example of modern corporate inefficiency. It is also the reason why top people need firewalls to prevent them from bombardments of stupidity. In the past, it was the live executive assistant or receptionist. Now, since most experts are not executives and don’t have administrative assistants screening their email, bumbling, disorganized employees can waste large gobs of (presumably more expensive) time with incomplete request after incomplete request.
Email from incompetent: Hey, can you get me the sales numbers from the third quarter?
Email response from expert: Sure, here they are (attached).
(five minutes later)
Email from incompetent: Hey, can you also send me projections for fourth quarter?
(expert, yelling at monitor): Why didn't you ask for that before? I have a meeting in five minutes and have to deal with an echo request from Dave in Logisitics?! Come on!
Email response from expert: Sure, here they are (attached).
(five minutes later)
Email from incompetent: Hey, can you also send me projections for fourth quarter?
(expert, yelling at monitor): Why didn't you ask for that before? I have a meeting in five minutes and have to deal with an echo request from Dave in Logisitics?! Come on!
by TissPee January 22, 2010
Get the echo requestmug. Noun
1. The vocabulary of someone who works in broad strokes, usually to hide the fact that they don’t read the fine print.
2. A vernacular reserved for educated-yet-confused people, typically in politics or business, to fill the air with expensive, polysyllabic words to intellectually filibuster when a clear answer is not apparent to said (over)speaker.
1. The vocabulary of someone who works in broad strokes, usually to hide the fact that they don’t read the fine print.
2. A vernacular reserved for educated-yet-confused people, typically in politics or business, to fill the air with expensive, polysyllabic words to intellectually filibuster when a clear answer is not apparent to said (over)speaker.
1. He spends enough time in the strategysphere to prove he didn't read the contract.
2. When Bob asked Maribeth to answer for her project's failure, she flew up to the strategysphere and never came back. By then, we were all asleep.
2. When Bob asked Maribeth to answer for her project's failure, she flew up to the strategysphere and never came back. By then, we were all asleep.
by TissPee January 15, 2009
Get the strategyspheremug. Combination of "pwned" and "pounded flat." To be even more pwned than every before. Usually occurs in games, movies or other pop culture when a person has something large land on them, removing them from view and, presumably, killing them instantly. Items include cars, helicopters, boulders and buildings.
Did you see Kumar in that Superman movie? He had, like, one line, and then was pwnd flat by that 100-foot black crystal spire. Dizzam.
by TissPee September 19, 2009
Get the pwnd flatmug.