I promised somebody something for COB today and then thought about it afterwards and found it funny. Does business ever close anymore? The person in question was in India, but needs to run things by his boss in America before we can act on it anyway. So between the three time zones I’m not sure that business closes at all!
I’m sure that as a phrase it’s still useful, although now it more often means “you’ll have it before I go home for the night” than “you’ll have it by 5pm when the whistle blows and we go”, but when you’re working across timezones when it actually gets done doesn’t really matter. If I finish the task at 3am that’s still fine, as it will be done when the guys in India come in to work (a couple of hours later).
Bit random, but it tickled me and I thought it might tickle you too.
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July 1st, 2004 at 8:50 AM
We have that experience at work too. Mostly for me it’s interacting with America, which boils down to getting your work done in the morning and then talking to America in the afternoon. Fortunately for me, the bits of America I talk to are on Eastern Time, so we have a fair amount of overlap.
I was going to include a link to a funny article on The Onion about America decreeing that the world adopt Eastern Time, but anything older than 4 issues is now reserved for Premium readers. Ho hum.
July 1st, 2004 at 10:17 AM
Maybe try find the Google version?
July 2nd, 2004 at 8:21 AM
Unfortunately either Google doesn’t know, or I don’t know the correct way of persuading it.
July 2nd, 2004 at 9:09 AM
Awww. Oh well 🙂