Let's Circle Back....

[rareboy]

Tonight we were supposed to be celebrating epiphany with a dinner party with our friends...but had to cancel because of post-covid problems.

Throughout late November and December, we bumped off engagements with clients, friends and family into January and now I see thatour calendar looks like a corral of wild ponies...all restless and uanble to be lassoed.

I almost laughed out loud when I parenthetically used the term 'let's circle back' in early December when setting up a post NY dinner, but now I realize it was probably an invitation to disaster.

Are there engagements you shunted off into 2024 with all good intentions?

And honestly now...have you usede this most hackneyed of business-speak terms to push engagements off?

 

[Peloso]

Are there engagements you shunted off into 2024 with all good intentions?

Leaving my apartment.

 

[unloadonme]

No. I went to everything I wanted to go to in December as planned and permanently declined everything I didn't want to attend. The risk of catching Covid (or anything else) wasn't a consideration for me or (as far as I'm aware) for anyone else.

I've never used the term "circle back". I've heard plenty of management nonsense at the office, but even there I don't recall that one. Maybe it's specifically Canadian.

 

[Araucaria]

I ended up postponing a whole bunch of yard work and gardening projects from December. I'm getting older, and I can't deal with the persistent heat and mugginess of the Florida weather, which forced me to postpone any work until summer was over, which might be November if we're lucky. Anyway, local code enforcement got on my case about some things in my front yard, so I had to cut back some growth on the sides and do some "aesthetic" work like edging the sidewalks, instead of handling some more critical jobs in the back.

I further delayed work when I realized that both Christmas and New Year's Day fell on yard waste pickup day, which meant anything I put out there might be waiting to be collected by the side of the road for 3 weeks. I finally got out and cleared some aggressive vine growth against the back of my house yesterday. Still to do is cutting back what is left of the Australian pine hedge. They will grow into full-fledged trees if I don't do that. And my 15 foot cashew tree was toppled by a storm a couple of weeks ago. That is after hurricane Ian did the same thing last year. So what I'm going to do is cut it back to 4 feet (again), and prop it up, hoping it can get established before the wind can take it down again. And then there are several areas that need to be pruned and cut back, not to mention numerous other smaller projects.

Of course I wanted to do the usual holiday stuff. I put up my Christmas tree, and went out to a couple of holiday dinners. And then I addressed and mailed Christmas cards, and went to a Christmas Eve party, and did stuff like that. I figured that I wanted to enjoy the season, and besides, what's the point of it all if you have to deny yourself the enjoyment of life in order to do all your chores?

 

[rareboy]

No. I went to everything I wanted to go to in December as planned and permanently declined everything I didn't want to attend. The risk of catching Covid (or anything else) wasn't a consideration for me or (as far as I'm aware) for anyone else.

I've never used the term "circle back". I've heard plenty of management nonsense at the office, but even there I don't recall that one. Maybe it's specifically Canadian.

No...definitely in the US as well.

 

[Alistair]

I hear “We’ll circle back to that” every time I’ve asked about a raise.

 

[belamyi]

 

[Maklaar13]

We ended up doing more than we wanted to. In the end it was fun. It is hard to turn down some of the wonderful people that sincerely just want to see you over the holidays.

 

[eddielee]

I did not have to delay or cancel any engagements in December. Thus far, in 2024, no cancellations or delays.