Business BafflegabBafflegab
Ping
pingverb
What it means
To send a message with no greeting, no context, and the implicit expectation of an immediate response.
What it actually means
Your attention belongs to me now.
How it is used in a sentence
"Ping me when you get a sec."
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.
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To add a colleague to a fifty-message thread with no summary, so that the problem now has an owner.
Real meaningYou are responsible for this now, and you have no context.