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Wandapec
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The meaninglessness of "urgent"!
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October 06, 2010, 22:00:10 PM »
I don't know about you guys, but I was thinking about this today after getting another message to phone someone "urgently" - only to find out that it wasn't
urgent
! Almost
every
communication these days ends with an "urgent" - "Please phone me
urgently
..."; "I need the report
urgently
..."; "We need to meet
urgently
..."; "Can you do this
urgently
?" etc. etc. Everything always seems frikkin'
urgent
to everybody, to the point that "urgent" has become meaningless!
And that's my rant for the day...
Thanks.
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cyghost
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Re: The meaninglessness of "urgent"!
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October 07, 2010, 07:23:34 AM »
Hey
wandepac
mate, move down to Cape Town. We don't know the meaning of that word you are using here
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Re: The meaninglessness of "urgent"!
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October 07, 2010, 07:44:25 AM »
Yeah, it can be quite tedious to hear it so often. I usually just allocate them a number, which annoys them, but there's no point in rushing everything, it just results in a stuff up which could have been prevented if you took time and thought in doing something.
Had a chap with me last week whose contract expired and he was throwing a vloermoer about the urgency of renewing it, and if I didnt do it NOW, he will resign, he calmed down quickly when I pointed out to him that considering his contract has expired, he doesnt have to resign....
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Re: The meaninglessness of "urgent"!
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October 07, 2010, 07:59:16 AM »
Quote from: cyghost on October 07, 2010, 07:23:34 AM
move down to Cape Town
I moved down from Jhb in Jan 2010 - guess where the calls and mails are coming from...? I just can't get away!
Quote from: Faerie on October 07, 2010, 07:44:25 AM
he will resign
If only he would do it
urgently
...
Anyway, got to go, I feel something
urgent
coming on!
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Re: The meaninglessness of "urgent"!
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October 07, 2010, 21:45:40 PM »
Yes, urgent has lost its meaning completely. URGENT!!!!, sometimes still coax me into action, and possibly even
urgent!
. But generally speaking, its gone threadbare. Massively over used.
Wasn't there a fable featuring a little shepherd boy warning against this very thing? No, wait, it was a song by A-ha.
Mintaka
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October 07, 2010, 22:06:50 PM »
What riles us a good deal more than any prompts of “Urgent!” (in all of its various presentations) is the smallness of the fraction of officialdom that comprehends the meaning of “Please acknowledge receipt of this fax/e-mail/letter/communiqué.”
'Luthon64
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Re: The meaninglessness of "urgent"!
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October 08, 2010, 14:46:09 PM »
i usually ask for a due date. coz im not going to stress myself into a standstill, if its something only due like next week.
the only people who needs my urgency, is my bank, my boss, and my landlord. the rest can, as faerie says, take a number.
i can still phonecalls from my boss and bank, but my landlord just gives me images of burning houses and panicked animals, so i return those immediatly.
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