Microspeak: here we go again...
bump Synonym for "push back", ie. readdress an issue after an unsatisfactory or dilatory response. "You'll need to bump legal again on the permissions issue." ping Term which has evolved slightly and fallen in and out of favor; at the time of writing (7/97) it's back in. A reminder or (used as a verb, which is slightly more common) to remind: "I need to ping my program manager to get some more test help." Originally named onomatopoetically for an actuel noise a computer would make when communicating with another computer to verify a connection. © Ken Barnes	Issues are there to be addressed and re-addressed, admin is there to be chased, re-chased and chased again... Corporate life may well, after all, be the same everywhere; has Dilbert any views on this?

Microspeak: here we go again...

bump: Synonym for "push back", ie. readdress an issue after an unsatisfactory or dilatory response. "You'll need to bump legal again on the permissions issue."

ping: Term which has evolved slightly and fallen in and out of favor; at the time of writing (7/97) it's back in. A reminder or (used as a verb, which is slightly more common) to remind: "I need to ping my program manager to get some more test help." Originally named onomatopoetically for an actuel noise a computer would make when communicating with another computer to verify a connection.

Issues are there to be addressed and re-addressed, admin is there to be chased, re-chased and chased again... Corporate life may well, after all, be the same everywhere; has Dilbert any views on this?

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