Phrases Used By An Engineers And Their Meaning

Years of development.
(It finally worked.)

Fax it to me.
(I’m too lazy to write it down.)

No maintenance.
(If it breaks, we can’t fix it.)

We’re following the standard.
(We’ve always done it this way.)

I haven’t gotten your email.
(It’s been days since I’ve checked my email.)

We’re trying a number of different approaches.
(We still guessing, at this point.)

The project is in process.
(It’s so tied up in red tape that it’s completely hopeless.)

We’ll have to abandon the entire concept.
(The only person who understood the thing just quit.)

We’re preparing a report with a fresh approach.
(We just hired a couple of kids out of college.)

We’ll look into it.
(Forget it! We’ve got so many other problems already, we’ll never get to it.)

Customer satisfaction is believed to be assured.
(We’re so far behind schedule that the customer will settle for anything.)

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