Mike's Stuff - Diarise This 2007

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	27/Feb/2007

We received a couple of emails today just dripping with corporate-bollocks-speak. The first one informing us of repair work going on outside the building and telling us to Please diarise this event.

No I don't think I will. I'm not going to do a thing until you use proper English and not stupid made up words in an attempt to sound clever.

The second email informed us of repair work going on inside the building out of office hours. Apparently it will be BAU during the working day. There was no explanation of what "BAU" meant. I think it stands for "Bullshit As Usual".

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Annie wrote

Acronyms

Hello Mike, I found your site a few weeks ago by accident. Very nice. I sympathise with the silly diarise-speak. I came across a website, http://www.diarise.co.uk/ and am still none the wiser! Regarding the acronym, BAU, my husband and I do a lot of work for the National Health Service and they drive us mad (the acronyms, not the NHS :-)). Your interpretation is apt and very funny. I understand BAU also means Bangladesh Agricultural University, Baseline Assembly Unit (que?) Business Administration Unit and Business As Usual (the most likely).

1/3/2007 23:38:58