tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957414.post115154494372584579..comments2023-09-05T03:15:58.753-07:00Comments on Doing Boeing: Business Slang...Adam Phillabaumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01798780122426727307noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957414.post-25161183712255034762008-07-30T07:22:00.000-07:002008-07-30T07:22:00.000-07:00SO funny Nikki. Here it is TWO years later &...SO funny Nikki. Here it is TWO years later & COB showed up in an email of mine. Being a fisherman & slightly preferring the taste of Halibut I imagined a FISH jumping up, or that the statement of COB was on SALE today or something of that sort. Anyway had to post it was nice to see someone else in the world seen this simple term tends to make things more complicated than necessary. Jay~JAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957414.post-1152569086666909912006-07-10T15:04:00.000-07:002006-07-10T15:04:00.000-07:00I hate COB. No, not COB the fish, the acronym COB ...I hate COB. No, not COB the fish, the acronym COB that stands for Close of Business. <BR/><BR/>First of all your COB is very different from my COB. And to think about it, we are not a *store*, we don't really have a COB anyway. We might have an EOD, End of Day, but again, my end of day is not your EoD! <BR/><BR/>Second, why not just say, "x hour on x day?" Like, "4:00pm on Tuesday"? Much clearer and doesn't require obsessive-compulsive people like me to imagine a fish jumping in my face when I read the email.Nikki Chauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08773447901172975972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957414.post-1151943452534887962006-07-03T09:17:00.000-07:002006-07-03T09:17:00.000-07:00Should be 'urgent need'. An emergent behaviour is ...Should be 'urgent need'. An emergent behaviour is a recurring property observed of a system that could not be predicted beforehand.<BR/><BR/>Actually, I suppose they may have the right word, but an emergent behaviour still does not indicate priority, which I think is what they were trying to convey.Mike Dimmickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05742167175227840320noreply@blogger.com