You might revert to me ... huh?

Owen · 24-11-2008 11:06AM #1

I get dozens of eMails a day at work, and there's a new buzzword - kinda like touch base, lets network, etc - it's called 'Revert'. Now as far as I know, the word revert means return to previous state, or in other words, turn back into what it was. I've checked Google, and I can't find any other definitions, but time and time again people are eMailing in with questions saying "You might revert to me on these". Anyone got any ideas if it's actually used in that context, or are all these people just making mistakes?

The almighty Google leads to sites like Bad English, and wordreference, and nearly every one of these sites says that it's actually a mistake, and that people just don't know what they're saying.

Reminds me of the Simpsons, where Edna Crabboble says "Embiggen isn't even a word", and Skinner says "Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word"

6th · 24-11-2008 11:09AM

Sounds like more **** management speak to me. I suggest you reply and tell them to go fo0k themselves.

ShooterSF · 24-11-2008 11:10AM

Just reply "I can't as I am unsure of their previous state"

Should confuse the buzz word muppets a bit more.

Kintarō Hattori · 24-11-2008 11:11AM

Hmnn I can't say I've heard anyone here use that ned, perhaps it's just down there in cork. You know yer all a bit strange down there. :pac:

connundrum · 24-11-2008 11:12AM

Unless someone is going to revert to me with a cheque for several thousand euros, they can piss off.

biko · 24-11-2008 11:14AM

Use the word regress instead.

ShooterSF · 24-11-2008 11:17AM

Why not email them a definition of the word?

muckwarrior · 24-11-2008 11:19AM

Just reply with this http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/revert.html

Wreck · 24-11-2008 11:21AM

They all must be snowboarders

Revert - To switch from riding fakie to forward, or from forward to fakie, usually while the snowboard is still touching the ground.

I also get this in e-mails alot, especially when dealing with the US. What really bugs me is the new trend of replying to e-mails with the phrase 'well noted with thanks' - fcuking freaks me out tbh.

mikemac · 24-11-2008 11:22AM

"Please advise"

About every email I get has this:
Please advise why this was done
Please advise why you fecked off on lunch without doing it
Is advise a verb? Gonna check this, maybe it's ok
That's the buzzword along with "as per procedure"

Hey posters, why do some of you sign your posts? Always reminds me of work emails

Gillo · 24-11-2008 11:22AM

We convinced someone that he needed to rimsh00t an account last week, scary thing is he just accepted that that was what needed to be done.

Dyr · 24-11-2008 11:25AM

I hate "revert" I hate " advise" i hate "does that suit?" suit f***in who? finish the sentence!!:mad:

Ross_Mahon · 24-11-2008 11:27AM

Wreck wrote: »

They all must be snowboarders

I also get this in e-mails alot, especially when dealing with the US. What really bugs me is the new trend of replying to e-mails with the phrase 'well noted with thanks' - fcuking freaks me out tbh.

I knew it sounded familiar! Just from playing SSX all the time.

Slow Motion · 24-11-2008 11:40AM

Revert has been around for a long time! It's just *****ultant speech tbh, next time your asked to revert to someone about something, do so with your response telling them you were thinking outside the box to come up with this one, and while you know you are pushing the envalope, why don't we just run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes!

Alternatively tell them they sound like a wanker and to fcuk right off!

mikemac · 24-11-2008 11:43AM

Don't forget to touch base with your associates!

Owen · 24-11-2008 11:45AM

While the other ones are also management buzzwords, they are at least correct use of the english language. Revert makes people sound uneducated!

24-11-2008 11:47AM

revert = get back (American idiom?)

KTRIC · 24-11-2008 11:48AM

ned78 wrote: »

While the other ones are also management buzzwords, they are at least correct use of the english language. Revert makes people sound uneducated!

Makes them sound like management then

24-11-2008 11:54AM

KTRIC wrote: »

Makes them sound like management then

Indeed! As in AIG management with their $27 million dollar golden parachutes for CEOs that don't last a year and fail. And their survivors demanding a taxpayers multi-billion dollar bailout so that they can party at a posh So Cal resort for over $400,000.

AnonoBoy · 24-11-2008 12:02PM

I'm gonna go right ahead and action that ASAP and if you can just revert to me with the figures that'd be super.

[edit] I should be in management [/edit]

Mitch Connor · 24-11-2008 12:07PM

I get "Please do the needfull" a lot.

KTRIC · 24-11-2008 12:11PM

I could have been in management at this stage, 10 years in IT but I hate all the brown nosing and bullshit.

Can't imaging I'd ever stoop that low to be honest. It seems quite competent engineers go into management and either turn into assholes or get progressively stupid and ignorant.

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I get "Please do the needfull" a lot.

Let me guess, you have offices in India ?

Dinter · 24-11-2008 12:28PM

Yeah it's a pointless one alright. Personally when I see it in correspondance I take revert to mean, reply back on the particular subject with my thoughts / additions rather than making changes to the minutiae of it. I.e whether it makes good sense to do yadda yadda yadda, rather than whether I spelt minutiae right!

It's like if you're having a conversation and you go off to the jacks mid flow and when you came back you revert to the subject you were talking about before.

Just remember never say "revert back" as that just shows astounding levels of ignorance for which you should be crucified or at least insulted!

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Dinter · 24-11-2008 12:47PM

There's an old lad in my office who puts his business address in the top right of an email and my address (which is the same) below it just like he was writing a letter.

Bumbling old fool earns more money than I do! (Still can be damn sure he doesn't waste as much time on boards as I do.)

Slow Motion · 24-11-2008 01:01PM

KTRIC wrote: »

I could have been in management at this stage, /QUOTE]

"I coudda been a contender I tell ya, I coudda been somethin' special, now I'm just a bum........."

KTRIC · 24-11-2008 01:52PM

Slow Motion wrote: »

"I coudda been a contender I tell ya, I coudda been somethin' special, now I'm just a bum........."

Well put it this way. I earn more than my manager

And he knows it. :cool:

P.C. · 24-11-2008 02:11PM

Years ago, my boss (at the time) told me that i needed to 'go the extra mile'.

I told him that if I went 'the extra mile' I would not be at work, but a mile down the road.

He did not see the funny side.

Dyr · 24-11-2008 02:22PM

Look guys, I think we need to ringfence this discussion for now, I'm not getting a sense of what we're hoping to achieve here, yeah?

dunnomede? · 24-11-2008 02:25PM

micmclo wrote: »

Don't forget to touch base with your associates!

I'm being investigated on a case of sexual harrasment

Orlee · 24-11-2008 02:26PM

I get " You might revert to me by return"

Just don't get it! They might as well just write "WB"

You might revert to me ... huh?

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