This paper half-seriously considers a negative answer to the thematic question of whether science and technology studies (STS) `means business'. The question addresses whether or not STS research can be translated, applied, or otherwise made useful. It is easy enough to affirm that such research can be translated, or as I would prefer to say accommodated, to various local organizational environments, but this begs questions about just what is translated, for what purpose, and for whom. Is the resulting knowledge indicative of STS or something else? Problems associated with efforts to engage with institutions whose members have their own epistemic agendas and conceptions of what STS has to offer them, suggest that STS might aim for something other than the serious job of doing business, and that research in this field requires leisure from both the workaday world of the university and the organizational work that STS scholars study.
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