(1). What people start ending emails with after being promoted to senior management.
“Got it. thx“ (FYI – This is all you’re going to get out of them, so just consider it an approval. They’ll never know.)
thx
RANDOM LINGO
Go Behind The Website
(1). To try to find out what a company’s really all about. Turns out, they do way less than they say they do … and cost way more.
“Look, Tom, this is all great stuff, but we really need to go behind the website here to find out what we’d really be paying for. Sounds like a lot of ‘will do’s’ but not a lot of ‘can do’s’ to me.”
Separate The Wheat From The Chaff
(1). To weed out the meat of a presentation (a.k.a. the quote) from all of the marketing fluff.
“This all looks great, Don. But I’m having a little trouble separating the wheat from the chaff here. Can you let me know where I can find the fee? … Oh, there it is – footnote 34 in Appendix K…got it.”