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(1). Yet another way to tell someone you aren’t going to do any more work than you absolutely have to.
“Sorry, Ned…I just don’t have the bandwidth right now to take on any more accounts. Hey, I’ve got an idea, why don’t you start working a 40-hour week? That might do it!”
(1). The act of quickly revising a document by hand and then giving it to someone else to type up. Well done, boss!
“Let me just pen and ink this real quick and I’ll get it right back to you. Sorry in advance about my handwriting…I can barely make it out! Have a nice weekend!”
(1). When your product or service becomes synonymous with it’s function. (i.e. Kleenex is a brand of tissue, not the tissue itself, and Google is a search engine, yet people use the brand name as the actual action of searching. See, now you get it, and if you don’t and are upset about not getting it, then grab a Kleenex and go Google it, lady).
“You see Ted, your problem is that you have somewhat of a Kleenex issue on your hands. On one hand, everyone knows your product and brand, on the other, nobody can differentiate between the two and your competitors use both in all of their marketing material. Guess that patent idea I gave you 10 years back makes a whole lot of sense now, doesn’t it Ted?”
