AtomicCEO Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 There is a new guy here at my job, and I'm sure he's still learning the ropes, and I'm not ready to throw him under the bus just yet... but he is causing an awful lot of extra work for me. I'm walking the fine line between not allowing his projects to tank, and not training him that I will save his ass when he puts in a minimal effort and tosses the hot potato onto my desk. Anyway... I have an email where he uses the phrase "net-net" like three times. What the hell kind of business jargon is this, and what does it mean? Example: "...so the Net-Net is that expecting Joe to do this for every individual store moving forward is not going to happen . . " I gather from the context what he is saying, but is he proactively visionizing cromulent business jargon to synergize vertical paradigms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Just tell him to turn on MS Word grammar checker. It hates jargon. LOL BTW, that's a stupid bit of language as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 There is a new guy here at my job, and I'm sure he's still learning the ropes, and I'm not ready to throw him under the bus just yet... but he is causing an awful lot of extra work for me. I'm walking the fine line between not allowing his projects to tank, and not training him that I will save his ass when he puts in a minimal effort and tosses the hot potato onto my desk. Anyway... I have an email where he uses the phrase "net-net" like three times. What the hell kind of business jargon is this, and what does it mean? Example: "...so the Net-Net is that expecting Joe to do this for every individual store moving forward is not going to happen . . " I gather from the context what he is saying, but is he proactively visionizing cromulent business jargon to synergize vertical paradigms? Ask him whether he has considered the net-net-net? NET NET: Net income minus insurance premiums and maintenance expenses. NET NET NET: Net income minus insurance and maintenance expenses and real-estate taxes. source: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isleseeya Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I think and I could be wrong , net - net means the net results ...or he is a jason kidd and vince carter fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch Oven Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I think he may be ghey, NTTAWWT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 So... he's overusing an inappropriate piece of jargon. That's what I thought. I'm going to start using "ascertain" far too often in my conversations with him as a passive-agressive retaliation. "I ascertain that you need an answer on this by 5?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 So... he's overusing an inappropriate piece of jargon. That's what I thought. I'm going to start using "ascertain" far too often in my conversations with him as a passive-agressive retaliation. "I ascertain that you need an answer on this by 5?" That is not creating synergy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 That is not creating synergy. Actually, this behavior is not aligned with the synergistic goals of the business unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 So... he's overusing an inappropriate piece of jargon. He's a bullsh1tter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 So... he's overusing an inappropriate piece of jargon. That's what I thought. I'm going to start using "ascertain" far too often in my conversations with him as a passive-agressive retaliation. "I ascertain that you need an answer on this by 5?" Kids in the Hall I loved that skit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 (edited) I think he is writing partly in a foreign language. Atomic: "Hey Noobie, are you a competent worker?" Noobie: "Net Net." Atomic: "Did you turn on your Russian Spell-Check?" Noobie: "Net Net." Edited February 19, 2007 by wiegie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_gop_liars Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 What do you catch fish fish with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 What do you catch fish fish with? Hillary Hillary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 The same salesman actually used the word "ascertain" in the meeting today. I nearly plotzed. I couldn't control my smile for like 10 minutes. People must have thought I was crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilthorp Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 The same salesman actually used the word "ascertain" in the meeting today. I nearly plotzed. I couldn't control my smile for like 10 minutes. People must have thought I was crazy. No, they just thought you were stoned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yo mama Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 (edited) net-net terminology is used most frequenty when a land owner is negotiating a lease with a tenant, and the tenant agrees to pay certain expenses normally born by the landowner (like insurance and utilities) and pay a net amount over as rent. However, most commercial leases I see are "triple net," meaning the tenant also pays property taxes directly, and remitts an even smaller net amount to the land owner. Outside of this context, about the only non-toolbox way to use the term is merely to say "the net result is..." (i.e., the "bottom line"). But saying "net-net" is retarded, unless you're talking about commerical leases or accounting. Edited February 23, 2007 by yo mama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 The same salesman actually used the word "ascertain" in the meeting today. I nearly plotzed. I couldn't control my smile for like 10 minutes. People must have thought I was crazy. thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 The same salesman actually used the word "ascertain" in the meeting today. I nearly plotzed. I couldn't control my smile for like 10 minutes. People must have thought I was crazy. i think you need to start trying to one-up this guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xMRogers Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Does he sometimes ask "what's the net-net" had a guy here that used the "net-net" phrase all the time to simply mean "net result" , and started making it part of the question as above - got so annoying I just started answering - 'well, net minus net is zero...so I gues nothing" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 You never know when you will come across a huddle reference: Please see footnote #1 to Table 5 on page 9: http://www.bis.org/publ/rpfx07.pdf?noframes=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Thanks for bumping wieg - my department supervisor used this in a meeting the other day. I still don't know why the f*ck you'd use this instead of just "net" or "end result". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 I heard them use it in the non-real estate sense on NPR's Marketplace the other day. By the way... funny story: That salesman was fired last month. I guess that's not so funny. I like his replacement a lot better though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinatieri Is God Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 By the way... funny story: That salesman was fired last month. I guess that's not so funny. I like his replacement a lot better though. Big cans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 Big cans? Well, yes. But that's irrelevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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