×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Going forward

Going forward

Going forward

(OP)
I hear a lot of people say "Going forward" Is there any other way to go? (This is in terms of time)

Similarly "In the past" seems redundant as well.

Any thoughts?

StephenA

RE: Going forward

I just set all my clocks back an hour for winter time, does that count?

RE: Going forward

From what I've seen in the multiple places I've worked during my career, Going Backwards is easy for a lot of managers. One company president wanted to take the product back 2 generations because "it worked and was cheaper to make"

Lateral Moves are common in many places for changing jobs - ie more work for same pay.

Don't forget "going off on a tangent" when someone in a meeting drags out his/her personal agenda and takes the entire meeting off track.

Bass Ackwards is another favorite direction.

You can also go "up the creek" with or without the paddle.

I think most of those how try to inspire using words like "Let's move forward on this" realize that by themselves the project will sit motionless....

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- by Albert Einstein

RE: Going forward

Things can also be "going belly up".

RE: Going forward

and other things are "going down the gurgler".

Cheers

Greg Locock

Please see FAQ731-376 for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips.

RE: Going forward

"Going forward" is often used by a manager type when speaking to a group as a euphemism meaning:

"This discussion is going where _I_ don't want it to go (or I don't understand it), and _I_ am in charge, so _we_ will cease discussing this issue, implicitly declare that it's resolved in the way _I_ want it to be resolved, and start discussing another issue."

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources