I'll do my best.

[Chad32]

Hearing a boss say "I'll find someone who will" usually carries the implication that you'll be fired and replaced. That puts added pressure on someone to make sure it gets done.

I narrowly missed being fired once because I was given the job of sweeping floors, and I suck at it. I always have, but no one ever believes that I'm just bad at sweeping, so bosses keep giving me that role because I don't have higher educational skills. I have bad eyesight, and often lower standards of what constitutes a clean floor, so I'll sweep up a floor, and ten minutes later someone will come behind me and pile up almost as much as I did earlier.

[Brian37]

I hear, "I'll do my best" a lot. In my experience, it almost always has been a cop-out for the end result of something. You can't blame the person for doing a shitty job at something, because of the, "I did my best" excuse. It drives me nuts, but when I hear someone else say it, I give them the benefit of the doubt that they mean it. In that case, it doesn't bother me.

Bullshit, the stupid idea of perfection in an imperfect world is poison. It leads to unhealthy political views, delusional religious views, and unhealthy man made business disasters like oil spills.

It can also lead to abusive parents shoving their kids into directions they don't want to go even to the point of suicide.

One of my favorite comedians Richard Jenni committed suicide because society sold him a bullshit notion that if he just did it he could be as famous as Jim Carry.

Nobody is advocating doing a shitty job, but all on can do is their best, the math simply is not there for everyone to be on top all at the same time. For most humans, we are lucky to feed ourselves and pay our bills.

[Marsellus Wallace]

"i'll take care of it" is my favorite.
"consider it done" a little too confident, but cool.
"piece of cake" nobody says it anymore, which is a good thing.

[Salacious B. Crumb]

I hear, "I'll do my best" a lot. In my experience, it almost always has been a cop-out for the end result of something. You can't blame the person for doing a shitty job at something, because of the, "I did my best" excuse. It drives me nuts, but when I hear someone else say it, I give them the benefit of the doubt that they mean it. In that case, it doesn't bother me.

Bullshit, the stupid idea of perfection in an imperfect world is poison. It leads to unhealthy political views, delusional religious views, and unhealthy man made business disasters like oil spills.

It can also lead to abusive parents shoving their kids into directions they don't want to go even to the point of suicide.

One of my favorite comedians Richard Jenni committed suicide because society sold him a bullshit notion that if he just did it he could be as famous as Jim Carry.

Nobody is advocating doing a shitty job, but all on can do is their best, the math simply is not there for everyone to be on top all at the same time. For most humans, we are lucky to feed ourselves and pay our bills.

Well, you don't know what I live with. This is actually my experience in real life, and I said I don't mind when other people say it and mean it. I, also, don't think that "I'll do my best" means that you have to be perfect, because, as you said, we live in an imperfect world. With the comedian story, it sounds like you're referring more to, someone feeding bullshit to someone, or just not being truthful enough with each other. Which I'm a big advocate of the truth, so, maybe I'm missing your point on what you called bullshit on, but I'll try to respond to it.

[Brian37]

All one can do is their best, if you precieve that as an excuse ending up in a shitty job, you are the problem. Maybe some forethought on your part before assinging a task to someone could avoid a shitty job.

[Brian37]

.. The best bosses listen to workers accept their limitations and avoid putting them in situations they cannot handle. The worst bosses simply dictate and project and bark orders. If someone does a shitty job what does that say about the decision making of the boss who assigned them the task?

[Salacious B. Crumb]

All one can do is their best, if you precieve that as an excuse ending up in a shitty job, you are the problem. Maybe some forethought on your part before assinging a task to someone could avoid a shitty job.

I agree all that people can do is their best, and I wouldn’t expect more from them. And, the employer/employee thing is a good example. I agree, I would not expect my employee who is 140 pounds to lift an 80 pound box and carry it around for a few hours, I realize that there are limitations, and that everyone is different. When I live with someone that says that phrase a few times a week, and he uses it in a dishonest way, I’m sure people can understand where I’m coming from. If, his only job is to take a cloth and wipe off the counter in the kitchen, and I watch him do it in 30 seconds (and tells someone he did his best), and he doesn’t get some of the obvious stains that come off, with 3 extra seconds of light scrubbing, and he tells everyone that he did his best, it’s kind of a thing that pisses me off, especially when it’s been going on for years and years. In my case, it’s an example of laziness and dishonesty. There are many other minor examples of this, and I know it’s a total excuse with this one particular person, in my particular scenario. I feel, you took my message the wrong way. I’m not some insane, critical wacko, that demands perfection out of everyone.