RE: I'll do my best.
July 25, 2015 at 3:13 am
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2015 at 3:17 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 24, 2015 at 11:29 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Somewhere along the line it picked up a "don't blame me if it doesn't turn out perfect" connotation. Don't know where.
I don't think the connotation is "don't blame me" -- I think it is "my best may not be enough". That's a fair thing to say, but in business, the motto is (boiled down to its essence) "Make it happen".
Failure is accepted after the fact so long as there is a substantive explanation, but in business, any hint of foreseeing the failure of corporate dicta is viewed as "not being a team player."
I made the mistake one time of telling my regional manager that "I'll jump through the hoops" -- gods above, I got about ten minutes of lecture for not being fully aboard a program I knew wouldn't work in my district for demographic reasons.
"I'll do my best", in corporatespeak, is admitting a priori that one's best may not be good enough.
Be advised that corporatespeak is not standard English.
