My boss says that to me ALL THE TIME, and I have finally after a year and a half of throat-shutting heart-pounding panic attacks learned to translate "when K says it, it means 'there's a new rush job to be scheduled this week,' not 'you have screwed up big time and are about to be demoted or fired or I am about to lay some other doom on your head for which you are expected to take full personal blame,' which is how everybody else in my life uses the phrase. I don't think she quite knows how it reads to the English-speaking world, or else she wouldn't give us as many heart attacks as she does, but. er. yeah. Woooooord.
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My boss says that to me ALL THE TIME, and I have finally after a year and a half of throat-shutting heart-pounding panic attacks learned to translate "when K says it, it means 'there's a new rush job to be scheduled this week,' not 'you have screwed up big time and are about to be demoted or fired or I am about to lay some other doom on your head for which you are expected to take full personal blame,' which is how everybody else in my life uses the phrase. I don't think she quite knows how it reads to the English-speaking world, or else she wouldn't give us as many heart attacks as she does, but. er. yeah. Woooooord.