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(1). A caveat added to a promise to complete a task requested after a known or stated deadline, often used by operations to pre-emptively excuse the fact that they have absolutely no intention of completing the annoyingly last-minute request in the first place.
“Well, given that it’s 4:30 on a Friday, running a report of all your transactions since 1996 by the end of the week is going to be on a best efforts basis…”
(1). The guy on the sales team that’s really good on Excel, but really bad with people.
“Oh, that’s Ron over there. He’s a real numbers guy, so we rely on him for almost everything. His cut? Well…it’s not like he’s bringing in business, so….”
(1). An emergency, last resort move that no one wants to do, but everyone would do if the alternative is fulfilling French fry orders.
“Yeah, so, it looks like the roll out of the new system didn’t work and none of our fixes … umm … fixed it. I suppose we could turn it off and then back on again. It’s kind of a break-glass solution, but it might work.”
