Question

Your boss on the West Coast says he needs your updated spreadsheet by 5:00 on Friday. You assume he means Pacific time, but you are working in Washington, DC. You submit your updates at 6:00 Eastern time and consider yourself two hours within the deadline. When you arrive at work on Monday morning, there is a scathing e-mail in your inbox. It turns out your boss, knowing you were in Washington, DC, was translating time for you and meant 5:00 Eastern time. This misunderstanding happened because your boss used

Answer 1

equivocal terms.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since in the question it is mentioned that your boss needs the updated sheet by 5:00 on friday but you presume that it means the pacific time and according to this you submit the updated at 6:00 but at the morning morning there would be a scathing email so this misunderstanding would be occured due to equivocal terms as it deals with the multiple meanings