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(1). A day in which the lies parents tell their kids about their job are tested, with moderate to no success.
“Ok Danny, when daddy said he “worked with Derek Jeter”, he didn’t so much mean he played for the Yankees, as he cleans the locker room at Yankee Stadium.”
(1). To positively impact or move a project forward, generally used when providing negative feedback in order to imply that someone is being neither impactful nor moving anything forward.
“Thanks for your input here, Tom. Unfortunately, I just don’t think adding more slides about how you are personally trying to go paperless is really going to move the needle on the firm’s cost-cutting project. I mean, really, you work in the mailroom!”
(1). The last word you ask a co-worker in an email in which you forward another email you received to which you either (a) don’t know how to respond, or (b) don’t want to respond. Also see punt.
“Hi Tom:
Below is an email I received from Compliance regarding why we seem to have an unusually high frequency of wire fraud in our accounts. Thoughts?
Thanks a bunch,
Lou”
