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Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo Or, you can play the intelligent idiot, demand that people say what they mean and not stop asking them until they explain. Then they realise that you won't stand for any bull****, which is what most of them know that they talking.
My favourite phrase for technical meetings? "I'm sorry, I didn't follow that, I must be having an idiot day, today. Could you explain it so I could understand it, please?" |
That's a double bluff I do enjoy, profess idiocy and a need to have everything explained in Mickey Mouse terms so all the other bluffers suspect that you are in fact, clever... wasn't on form today though, and also find meetings with serious tone impossible to deal with, I require flippancy at all times to optimise performance otherwise I drift off...