Just Don’t
8th November 2022
Sometimes it’s wrong to begin a phrase with the word “just”. I offer as evidence two such situations. I think there’s a common thread to be drawn.
My wife works at a company that is often buttfucked by consultants and outside vendors, leaving her and her overworked colleagues to clean up the mess. Each such mess is usually introduced with the patent phrase “Oh just do X”, where X is some process that inevitably fails to work as advertised. Handwavium then generally ensues.