Can You See My Screen?
kan yoo see my skreenphrase
What it means
A question asked by someone who has been presenting to a frozen image of their own desktop for four minutes.
What it actually means
We have abandoned the agenda and are now troubleshooting.
How it is used in a sentence
"Can you see my screen? Let me try sharing the other tab."
Filed under
Business Bafflegab — Language engineered so that nothing is ever anyone’s fault and no decision is ever final.
Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.
Related entries
Quick Question
Business Bafflegabkwik KWES-chunnounBafflegab
A preamble that guarantees the exchange will be neither quick nor, strictly speaking, a question.
Real meaningI am about to take twenty minutes you had allocated to something else.
Deep Dive
Business Bafflegabdeep dyvnounBafflegab
A ninety-minute examination of a question that was answered in the first four, attended by eleven people, ending in a request for another meeting.
Real meaningThe answer was in the first four minutes. This is what we did instead.