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i'm trying to understand this phrase. from where i sit, it seems to mean, "i'm not going to get that to you, but it would be awkward to just shut you down, so i'm defusing the situation by offering a compromise i will never have to fulfill." like, i'm at the optometrist, and he's using high-end CCD cameras to photograph my retinal patterns, and of course, i ask: can i get a copy of this? like just email it to me. you have the address already. the doctor, decent really, is all: "oh, sure, i'll get that to you" i nod and drop the matter; why wouldn't he? doesn't seem hard but he never does. nor does the CEO when i ask for a copy of a slide deck from an outside consulting firm during the Q&A of a company meeting -- "oh, sure, i'll get that to you," he says. he doesn't. when i follow up with a manager more on my elevation, he says precisely the same thing: "oh, sure, i'll get that to you." but he never does day or two ago i heard some politician delivering the exact same phrase, and i now know what the fuck to expect when someone says this. but i'm just trying to understand: when did this become a thing? where did it come from? i think i should ask for that slide deck again. it doesn't matter to me, really, but now i'm curious what sort of reaction i'd get |
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like, taking a mental inventory -- when someone has said, oh, sure, i'll get that to you... not once -- once! -- have they actually gotten it to me. i did not get that thing, as ya did not send it. i'm reasonably at peace with this being how businesses are, but there are some very obvious bolts to tighten -- hi, yes, you'd said you'd get that thing to me, where is it? urge to sass rising |
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i do suspect the aforementioned politician was governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, and i am 112% certain he didn't get it to 'em. |
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in fact, his delivery was almost smug. at least i don't have that. perhaps a good job is where people have the decency to feel sheepish about shutting you down over something |
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i have to say, this is where i miss lewis. a therapist is a thing where you pay a few grand before you've finally mentally synced up enough for the therapist to apply some rigid dogma based on their own personal path through academia. lewis, so generative and unfiltered, i'd just dump this stuff on him and all sorts of things would come back and most of it was crap, but only because it blasted through the whole rainbow of insight at once. then just kind of tune into the right harmonics, like, yes, that bit there, you have it in this small pocket, amidst all the chaos... i could go to a therapist and ask about this, essentially trying to understand what has become, i dunno... a deflection mechanism that has spread amongst tech management circles like a meme spreads around twitter? like, there was a tipping point somewhere; tony hsieh off his tits on ketamine tweeting "i'll get that to you," genuinely meaning it, but too off his tits on ketamine to follow through, carving a deep yellow groove that has outlasted his storm of post-it notes anyways, what i'm trying to say is: i fucking hate radiohead |
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