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Re:Bezos says Amazon needs to do better for employees in las... by r00fus on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:12PM (#26824155)
Request is a hugely overloaded term in computing systems. HTTP requests, Customer or Service Requests (which are an object in ERP systems).

So corporate speech has moved to using "ask" to model an actual request.

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Re:Bezos says Amazon needs to do better for employees in las... by LZ_Khan on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:22PM (#26827407)
Surely executives aren't confusing their administrative requests with computing system concepts. The correct answer is simply that it's become a passive way of telling someone to do something. Instead of "Can you provide us a 25% growth this year" it is now "The ask is 25% growth this year."
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Re:Bezos says Amazon needs to do better for employees in las... by pc86 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:50PM (#26824663)
You think a lot of people mistake "I'm asking you to improve database response times by 25%" with an HTTP request?
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