ManagementSpeak: This looks foolproof. Go for it.
Translation: It’s your project. Goof up and you’re dead meat.
This week’s translation, from an anonymous contributor, was foolproof.
Year: 2011
Learning from an easy target
Ronny Richardson tells the tale, which begins with this e-mail to the Walmart.com Help Desk:
I sent a money gram to Cameroon. The local clerk said they could deliver to Yaounde Cameroon and the person I was sending it to could pick up the money at the local Walmart. As far as I can tell, there is no Walmart in Yaounde. Where would they go to pick up the money?
He received this response, which I’ve edited for length: