You're expecting to land on the other end of the runway ( i.e. the long way round the approach ) when ATC then offer you a straight-in to the nearer end of the runway ( wind favours neither end and traffic is quiet ).
You make a good fist of it, but have slightly mis-calculated ( it happens ) and find you can't get both height & speed off and have a stabilised approach by 1000' - so what to do ?
If you go-around then the company require you to file an ASR ( so extra time in crew room filing in paper work when you could be on your way home ) to say nothing of having defeated the whole object of accepting the straight-in.
Answer ? Chuck in an orbit ( with ATC's help, of course ). Drop off the offending height & speed, there's then no need for a go-around, and voila no need for an ASR !
Though I'll admit that this won't work everywhere - but it used to be called airmanship.