Acronyms in work or generally really

For Fuck Sake was used so much in our work that it was requested we find a more professional alternative. Good old acronym to the rescue, it's now simply FFS and said in a really well spoken bottled up manner, preempted by an intake of breath.

We also have JFDI, FOAD and KISS. What a delightful bunch of C U N T S I work with.
 
ste1969 said:
StrangewaysHereWeCome said:
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This one takes me back to school in the 80's

The all day i.....
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Well that's weird cos it was A D**k In Distress After Sha**ing in my school and it's the only way I remember how to spell it.
 
Used to work with a bloke who use to use phrases like peg in the ground, starter for ten, thinking outside the box etc. he was a fucking lunatic from chesterfield who thought he was bill gates because he was on 40k a year and drove a new mondeo. At the time he wore white socks with his suit and had his green mobile phone clipped to his trousers. (circa 2000) He would love to arrange meetings for times like friday at 6. He was really proud when he got in the office at 6 in the morning and would boast that he had done 90 hours this weeek. He made David Brent look cool. We used to write down all his phrases on a grid and when in a meeting we would play bullshit bingo so if he said a phrase we would mark it off. When we got four corners we would shout out bingo. His favourite acronym was IRS - information release schedule. On my last day at the company I told him he was a c..t and that I had a twelve inch cock ( I don't - it's 13) that his fat wife would like to meet and told him he was the biggest prick I had ever met. Glad leek crooks equalised that day!
 
Blumers Bloomers said:
Embarrassingly there are so many of them where I work, there is now an "acronym buster" on the intranet

WTF
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We have a full A-Z section for acronyms on ours, with a whole page for each letter. Despite that, we still see ones every day that aren't listed.
 
I work for a large firm and they are f**king acronym crazy...was in a big pow wow meeting not long after joining, folks phoning in from around the world...and then someone had to go and through in an acronym early on (I thought they were showing off)...everyone carried on yap yap yah yah etc etc and I looked around and realised that probably no one in the room knew what it meant (I didn't either!)...and after about five minutes someone on the phone asked what the acronym meant (that we'd been talking about for five mins)...and not one f**ker knew! I knew then, I was working with a load of tossers...been there a few years now and still haven't changed my mind.
 
reddishblue said:
I've had enough of them. When someone quotes you one and you don't know what it means I now ask "what does that mean" and await response. I recommend you all do it.
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I have to ask about 20 different tanker vessels for a ETA,ETB,ETC and ETD every day... If they all replied with your response I would be pretty fucked off !
 
Zero tolerance from me. Even when I understand them I pretend I don't. This slows things down to the point that eventually my colleagues have to stop using them and speak properly. Obviously this makes me a total **** to do business with but my contract is watertight so they can all get to fuck TBH.
 
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