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."

Comments

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

in my office that means "i know we had a vague conversation about it in passing and i know i didn't actually make a decision on how to proceed but i fully expect you to be taking some sort of action so that i can feel like you're earning your meager keep around here."