The best of Bob 'quotes' thread

[Bunk]

please do the needful

"and revert" is a favourite of mine.

[gingerjedi]

I put a tender out for some Bob work and one replied with this little gem at the end...

"Awaiting at least some response."

That's how I sign my emails to agents, they rarely take any notice.

I wonder if they think I'm Indian?

[Ravello]

Its amazing just looking at wikipedia on this subject, there are quite a lot of them. Amazing really, but understandable when you have such a large country and limited infrastructure to cross pollinate communities.

I hope nobody has taken this thread to be some kind of racially motivated hate thread, it certainly wasn't meant to be. Apologies if anyone is offended in any way, but I just saw an email today which made me think of some of the memorable ones I've had over recent years and wanted to share some of them.

Wasn't having a go at you CS. From time to time I work in a foreign language though and can imagine the mistakes I make being far worse than those that I see from Bob

Current clientco has outsourced almost all IT development (though is now bringing it back in house), which means there are roughly 60 odd outsource resources onsite - some of them speak in excess of 8 languages just so they can run their offshore team...

[bf2]

'Next to next week', meaning the week after the next.

[northernladuk]

It's not just Indian english. I work with a Ukrainian off shore dev team.

If they have a query it usually is in the form

"So let us explore few scenarios, blah blah bla a) blah blah blah b) blah blah blah c)
Please confirm which variant"

I find it indearing

LOL The irony

[CheeseSlice]

From time to time I work in a foreign language though and can imagine the mistakes I make being far worse than those that I see from Bob

You should hear my french. I have mastered it to "choosing from the menu" level,

....and to my embarrassment I am always replied to in English

[Spacecadet]

'Next to next week', meaning the week after the next.

you sure?
I thought that meant this week

[CheeseSlice]

you sure?
I thought that meant this week

Or maybe you've been over-delivering?

[Clippy]

Was in a Change Advisory telecon once where we were informed by Bob that the server upgradation at the weekend was successful.

[shaunbhoy]

You should hear my french. I have mastered it to "choosing from the menu" level,

....and to my embarrassment I am always replied to in English

Whilst I was stationed in Germany, I took the trouble to try and learn the lingo. I got to the stage where they would reply to me in German. Trouble was, I often had no idea what they had said.