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Dec 16, 2021

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Can We Please Banish ‘ASAP’ From Our Work Lexicon?

This plea of ambiguous urgency has got to stop…ASAP!

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“I’ve had it! We are putting whoever ends their emails with ‘ASAP’ at the end of the line.”

Perhaps I was being a little grumpy as I told my coworker how we’d be handling these perpetual ASAPers.

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