Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

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Nef in reply to @Dramatic_Hammer

if you use someone more than once and intend to use them again you

Again it’s semantics, but if I come round to your house and do a job, I’m not overly fond of you saying you “used me”, lol.

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Dramatic_Hammer in reply to @Nef

Are you working as Mr Nef or Nef Ltd though?

Talking to someone else:
‘We have a guy called Nef who does our X’
‘We use Nef Ltd to do our X’

I did actually think about typing ‘engaged someone for professional services’, but ‘used’ is shorthand.

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Nef in reply to @Dramatic_Hammer

Saying “we got Nef in and he did X” seems a bit nicer than “we used Nef to do X” IMO.

But you’re right, if instead of Nef, it was a large company not associated with an individual like “Domestic Energy Solutions”, it seems fair to say used.

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