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post 1563179391 10-08-2018, 08:46 AM
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Don't you hate these people? Cause I do

Please advise
post 1563179441 10-08-2018, 08:47 AM
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formal way to say: tell me what to do next ****goroonie
post 1563179481 10-08-2018, 08:47 AM
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Yes. Neighborhood residents send chit like that to me all the time.

I don't have a problem with the phrase itself, but I see it misused very often.
post 1563179571 10-08-2018, 08:48 AM
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please advise
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post 1563179671 10-08-2018, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted By nn586⏩
Don't you hate these people? Cause I do

Please advise
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post 1563179881 10-08-2018, 08:52 AM
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yes. Same people who put quotes in their signature or have everything marked as high priority.
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post 1563179931 10-08-2018, 08:53 AM
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I used to do this when I first started working since I saw it all the time. Then I stopped when I realized how ****gy it is.

Please advise.
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post 1563180001 10-08-2018, 08:54 AM
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Should I neg?


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post 1563180111 10-08-2018, 08:55 AM
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Respond with "I love it when you talk dirty".
post 1563180121 10-08-2018, 08:55 AM
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Unfortunately its all about covering your Angus in the white collar world... Please Advise instantly puts the ball in the other persons court.. so when $hit goes sideways you can fall back to it and say.. "I asked that kunt exactly what to do"
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post 1563180491 10-08-2018, 09:00 AM
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Please advise is just the white collar way of saying please respond.
Death is impossible for us to fathom: it is so immense, so frightening, that we will do almost anything to avoid thinking about it. Society is organized to make death invisible, to keep it several steps removed. That distance may seem necessary for our comfort, but it comes with a terrible price: the illusion of limitless time, and a consequent lack of seriousness about daily life. We are running away from the one reality that faces us all.
post 1563180561 10-08-2018, 09:01 AM
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I work in the medical field , so we use the phrase frequently. However we are sincerely looking for advice from a physician etc.

What grinds my gears is the simple grammatical error "please advice" that we see ...
post 1563180571 10-08-2018, 09:01 AM
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Franco is pretty smart, but Franco's a child, and when it comes to the day of the contest, I am his father. He comes to me for advices. So it's not that hard for me to give him the wrong advices.
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post 1563180731 10-08-2018, 09:04 AM
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haha cubecels and their poverty cc emails
post 1563180801 10-08-2018, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
Almost as much as I hate, "Thoughts?"

Corporate jargon makes me want to bash my head in.

Regards,
RR
Has anyone ever asked if you have the "bandwidth" to help with something? I've been hearing far too much lately.

No, I'm not a ****ing internet connection.
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post 1563180811 10-08-2018, 09:05 AM
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I say it in so many emails... I don’t want to but I do.

Edit- I also hate when I say “I hope this email reaches you well”


I basically become some person that I don’t even know when I need to be professional.

Lmao- I once had to compose an email to another project manager that was working for our client so I found a dictionary on the internet for project management jargon.. I used every big word I could find and sent it. I felt like a troll irl but it worked for what I wanted to happen.
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post 1563180831 10-08-2018, 09:05 AM
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There were times where this was actually appropriate. If you have no expertise in something and shouldn’t be making the decision, it’s appropriate. However, most of the time, if this were applicable, the issue would not come to you in the first place.

The majority of the times I’ve seen this used is when people want to shift responsibilities. They don’t want to be the one that said “we should do this” and have it not work. So they defer to someone else so they’re not liable for the outcomes. Not sure how some of these people get to their positions if they’re that scared of making a decision and the lack of confidence in their own abilities this fear demonstrates.
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post 1563180941 10-08-2018, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted By ForumNature⏩
Has anyone ever asked if you have the "bandwidth" to help with something? I've been hearing far too much lately.

No, I'm not a ****ing internet connection.
fuark I get this all the time now. Where did it come from?
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post 1563180961 10-08-2018, 09:07 AM
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I use it in a mocking way all the time when someone has fuked something up.


Hello Mr. Sales Rep,

On Tuesday we placed an order with your company for expedited delivery. Per our conversation we were to expect these items by the end of the week. We scheduled staff to be at the office on Friday to receive the items, and they never arrived. The CEO of our company (copied on this email) is asking me to explain why it is now tuesday of the following week and we have still not received the delivery, I am not sure what to tell him as I expected delivery last week.

Please advise.
post 1563181101 10-08-2018, 09:09 AM
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I write this in my emails all the time. Why do you hate it Opie?

Would you rather me say "You're frackin' doing your job wrong, so I'm asking you WTF were you thinking when you did this. Please give me your reasoning so I can understand your convoluted train of thought."
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post 1563181221 10-08-2018, 09:12 AM
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Hate this too OP.


Please advise.
post 1563181261 10-08-2018, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted By AltarOfPlagues⏩
Franco is pretty smart, but Franco's a child, and when it comes to the day of the contest, I am his father. He comes to me for advices. So it's not that hard for me to give him the wrong advices.


Also I don't get what this thread is about.













































Please advise
post 1563181351 10-08-2018, 09:13 AM
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I just make my response start with "sup retard"
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Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
All. The. Time.

Let's re-prioritize our action items list to correlate with new course projections set up by the higher tier brainstorming upstairs. Be thoughtful about managing your deliverables. Let me reach out and touch base with my team in the field and we will designate a new strike zone of solutions for the marketers to shoot for.

No need to inform me of any hurdles - you are authorized to overcome any speed bumps independently.

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It sounds lazy and impersonal. It's not that hard to type like a non-robot: "Is this a known-problem?" or "Is there a fix expected?" or "Any clue what's going on?" Anything other than "Please advise."
Like 70% of my email threads literally have a back and forth of long emails that eventually end up with “please advise” it’s an epidemic.
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post 1563181571 10-08-2018, 09:17 AM
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My coordinator and director state that in emails often.

No, I don't hate them lol
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Originally Posted By devin45k⏩
I just make my response start with "sup retard"
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Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
It sounds lazy and impersonal. It's not that hard to type like a non-robot: "Is this a known-problem?" or "Is there a fix expected?" or "Any clue what's going on?" Anything other than "Please advise."
Only managers and directors are allowed to ask things directly like that without making the other person feel like they haven't done their job.

If a peer asks, there's almost always resentment.

Also, I only use that when it's a cross-departmental interaction with a work group thatrequiresyou to be impersonal and professional. For people on my team, my IMs and emails are usually like "Um, hello, wtfrack is this homie?!" Because I know they're not going to be offended or pissy about it.
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post 1563182001 10-08-2018, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
That's so weird. All of it. I don't even know where to begin.
I also use it in this manner:

The network failure reported on xx, was due to yy reason. We think that the security team may have some other options to address the issue. Please advise.
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post 1563182121 10-08-2018, 09:26 AM
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post 1563182151 10-08-2018, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted By nn586⏩
Don't you hate these people? Cause I do

Please advise
nn586,

While I understand your frustration with the recent terminology in my subordinates signature. I've advised them to refrain from this phrase going forward.

V/R,
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