ASAP is Murrikin for the Mexican “mañana” or the Irish “I’ll do that, yeah.” The typical MBA will expect minions to interpret it as meaning “Drop everything and attend urgently to my Gentle Request because I’m far too important to the proper operation of the entire Universe”, but by now we’ve come to understand that the less attention is paid to the typical (and particularly freshly-minted) MBA’s urgent needs, the smoother everything will run.
ASAP is Murrikin for the Mexican “mañana” or the Irish “I’ll do that, yeah.” The typical MBA will expect minions to interpret it as meaning “Drop everything and attend urgently to my Gentle Request because I’m far too important to the proper operation of the entire Universe”, but by now we’ve come to understand that the less attention is paid to the typical (and particularly freshly-minted) MBA’s urgent needs, the smoother everything will run.