[Misc] Into the weeds ... what?

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

This.

Imagine working in a job where you haven’t got a clue what others are talking about.

Sounds like my manager

 

[shingle]

about 5 seconds in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL9rSwrsMHw

 

[ForestRowSeagull]

File alongside 'kicking the tyres'

 

[Moshe Gariani]

for the birds

 

[Gwylan]

Yay, I've had two Teams calls this morning and there was an "into the weeds" in both of them

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Working for San Francisco based tech business meant that unfortunately this phrase has been used around me (but never by me) for at least 15 years!

Working in UK Higher Education means that we are usually 15-20 years behind US tech business bollocks phrasing.

For example, everything became either "contextualised" or "granular" not long ago.

I expect I will hear someone use "into the weeds" for the first time in around 2024...

 

[Barham's tash]

Have also heard it, probably wrongly, used as kicked into the weeds to define some project or task that has been dropped.

 

[MJsGhost]

Have also heard it, probably wrongly, used as kicked into the weeds to define some project or task that has been dropped.

I'd say that's a bastardization of 'into the weeds' and 'kicked into the long grass'.

Until this thread, I had not been aware of the former

 

[MattBackHome]

Yeah it'a work thing.

E.g. "That ****ing workshy shirking malingerer is off sick again with his COPD - probably down the pub - so I'm in the weeds here."

 

[BN9 BHA]

Sounds like my manager

I bet you get on just fine

I really don’t know who these types are trying to impress, it’s not people like you and me I know.

 

[JBizzle]

This.

Imagine working in a job where you haven’t got a clue what others are talking about.

I'll be honest, if I worked in a place where there were things I didn't understand, I'd probably just try and understand them

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I use that phrase frequently - but only as I exit the house and venture into the garden.

Must be a gardener's phrase shirley ....

 

[BN9 BHA]

I'll be honest, if I worked in a place where there were things I didn't understand, I'd probably just try and understand them

I would ask exactly what they meant.

A customer rang me a few years ago and kept saying “box and cox” when telling me about the job she wanted done, after the 5th box and cox I stopped her and told her to stop saying it because it’s not something I have heard before and it wasn’t helping.

 

[schmunk]

I'd love to get into the Weeds...

 

[JBizzle]

I would ask exactly what they meant.

A customer rang me a few years ago and kept saying “box and cox” when telling me about the job she wanted done, after the 5th box and cox I stopped her and told her to stop saying it because it’s not something I have heard before and it wasn’t helping.

I had a similar this about 10 years ago. A guy I worked with used the term "follow the sun" in regards to a servicing centre about 30 times on one call and there were about 30 attendees on there. I was pretty new at the time so did ask then but popped him a message afterwards and he translated for me!

 

[BN9 BHA]

I had a similar this about 10 years ago. A guy I worked with used the term "follow the sun" in regards to a servicing centre about 30 times on one call and there were about 30 attendees on there. I was pretty new at the time so did ask then but popped him a message afterwards and he translated for me!

What does it mean?
I like to know these things

 

[JBizzle]

What does it mean?
I like to know these things

Basically, in order to service the UK 24 hours we transfer calls to our offshore service centres during their daytime hours, so we essentially "follow the sun" around the globe until we he GMT again

 

[father_and_son]

Another crap phrase to put on the management bingo card along with blue sky thinking and all the other Americanisms we pick up

Blue Sky thinking went out of fashion decades ago. Shown to be largely ineffective in comparison to Blue Ocean thinking in generating future growth potential. (Not sarcasm... Blue Ocean really different and is the preferred replacement to Blue Sky).

 

[Horses Arse]

How about FYSA - new to me and I keep seeing it now. Another bloody Americanism

Clue - it means pretty much the same as FYI

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[Gwylan]

Blue Sky thinking went out of fashion decades ago. Shown to be largely ineffective in comparison to Blue Ocean thinking in generating future growth potential. (Not sarcasm... Blue Ocean really different and is the preferred replacement to Blue Sky).

I've never heard of Blue Ocean, I have that delight to come