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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that ASAP means fairly high urgency/priority, push other things off. I also think that there are two ways of handling this on the asker and receiver side. Asker can says: Will it be possible to complete this priority by XX date/time?  Receiver can also, in getting an asap request say, "of course, currently I am working on Larla's project, with a deadline of X . Would you like me to prioritize Z?"

In fact this happened to me yesterday. I had a deadline for something yesterday but the head of our org had a need for something 'asap'. I clarified the timeline of asap (before an international flight that night!) and then I told first group that I had a new priority from the big boss, and I would turn the other thing around this weekend (yay working all weekend...after coffee and dcum).

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This is exactly what the employee did - clarify which thing should be higher priority. Then OP was confused because he didn’t understand why the employee was doing that.[/quote]

Op needs to apologize to the coworker asap.
Ordering someone to do something asap, the person asking for clarification on prioritizing work (because the asap made no usage sense), and the being told a made up definition via Op arguing is NOT A GOOD LOOK. At a minimum.   You prob dropped 30 In points to whomever in the room heard you arguing that ASAP means whenever. 
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