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March 21, 2008
Acronyms
We have communications meetings each month in which we're given company updates, mention birthdays and anniversaries, welcome new employees, and things of that nature. It seems that we have company-provided pizza and salad every other month. We used to have cake and ice cream at each meeting but have recently moved to a healthier fruit-and-yogurt model.
Once in a while, at least every quarter, we'll have a presentation put on by one of the departments. Well, mostly Sales and Engineering as a Finance Department presentation would be boring as hell. Think of how mind-numbingly dull the exercise of balancing your checkbook is; now imagine watching someone else balance their checkbook via Powepoint presentation and a projector… you get the point.
Not long ago it was the Sales Department's turn. Our Sales Director started his presentation my by mentioning that he was going to spend a moment explaining some of the acronyms that are commonly used in the company; he'd been asked to do so for the sake of new employees.
As he said this an image appeared on the screen that contained some of the acronyms as well as a partial list of some of our customers. Perhaps he was going to explain where the various technologies are used, I don't recall.
One of the customers, from a country far, far away, and partially fictionalize here, was Futo.
While I lack anything in the way of impulse control I do have a good sense of comedic timing. "I know what "F U" is," I said, before the Sales Director had time to start, "but what's T O?"
Everybody had a laugh and at the end of the day I was still employed.
What more can you ask for?
Posted by delmer at March 21, 2008 1:14 PM