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Originally Posted by simmer2
This one is a noun that bugs me but I'll share it anyways.
So here's an example of how pretty much every single conversation goes with someone in the Oil Patch:
Me: Hey man, how are are ya?
Him/Her: Busy!
Busy is not a description of how you are doing, seriously. I don't care if your boss has you working 120 hours per week, if I cared I would have asked that question. Stop making yourself sound important by saying you are busy, nobody cares.
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When I was taking my bar admission course, we had one of the teacher lawyers say the same thing. If you call a lawyer and ask how he's doing, 90% of the time he'll say busy. The guy was like (
) what are we trying to prove, that we're better than you because we can't manage our time very well...