Take it Offline!
So, every week we have this fairly large status meeting for our project. Lots of different people come to this, and sometimes the meeting can last long past an hour. In the beginning we actually discussed issues and got feedback from other people who may have a different piece of the puzzle to resolving a particular issue. It was somewhat useful, but generally extended the meeting way to long and often times long discussions would take place in which not everyone in the room was involved with (and dare I say not care about). Well, people sort of complained about this... rightfully so, and management decided to convert the meeting to very brief run downs on people's status on their current work load. Anything discussions that started to get too "in depth" are now squashed immediately as soon as someone says "Take it offline!" Now... I like keeping things from getting out of hand, but... WHO IN THE FUCK CAME UP WITH THAT STUPID ASS PHRASE?!? Take it offline? Wouldn't that mean that we were currently online? NO! Apparently not because you can be having a face to face discussion and you still need to take it offline? WTF! It makes no sense, and people who use the phrase are stupid. FUCK STUPID PEOPLE! And if you say "take it offline" fuck you too!
April 4th, 2008 - 13:37
bahaha. If I were to say “take it offline” I’d be well within my rights in this medium.