Today's translation

[substitute]

"I just wondered what the status on this was" is office-buzzspeak for "I hereby preemptively blame you for not carrying out a task that I did not explicitly assign to you or anyone else."

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[scromp.livejournal.com]

"I don't remember if there was a decision made on that" means "I know we made a decision on that and I was supposed to do the work but I didn't and now I'm pretending like we still haven't finished talking about it because I am betting incorrectly that none of you actually remember."

* SCROMP: REMEMBERER OF ACTION ITEMS