Timeline for Workplace idiom for "bei Gelegenheit" - order to do eventually, but do not provide priority
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| Oct 11, 2022 at 18:05 | comment | added | TonyK | @JonathanZsupportsMonicaC: "at your next convenience" doesn't sound English to me at all. (And "at your earliest convenience" is English, but implies that it has to be done soon, so it would be wrong here.) "When you have the time" is what I would go with. | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 13:55 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | ''At your leisure'' sounds a bit too relaxed, although it's almost the same. | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 13:34 | comment | added | Zsar | @fectin : Cannot recommend. Sarcasm is fun for everyone involved until you accidentally hit the truth instead - then it lands you in a disciplinary talk. | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 13:32 | vote | accept | Zsar | ||
| Oct 11, 2022 at 1:11 | comment | added | fectin | I use "In your copious spare time," usually with an amusing tone, because it is a joke that everyone laughs at before they help me. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 19:14 | comment | added | JonathanZ | Was going to suggest using "when convenient", which is basically the same thing. Note that you can also put on a little bit of priority by using "next", as in "at you next convenience". That would put this on the #1 spot of low-importance items, and would probably result in them asking you to clarify your timeline: do you want this before Friday, or sometime this month, or what. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 13:36 | comment | added | Zsar | "At your convenience" sounds really nice. I think the form I heard before was "at your leisure", though - are there significantly different tunes between the two? ... In any case, looks like an accept candidate after the usual 24 hours. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 12:21 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | Agreed. I was about to suggest "at your convenience" or "when you find the time" as well. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 12:20 | history | answered | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |