Bad acronyms

[moonwise]

We have had some hilarious acronyms come through recently in company emails that I'm sure were not intended as they are read. Or maybe they are.

For example, something called: Project SOL.

Then there was the FOD Management team.

Just today, I saw that a new site was being launched called [company]-CRS.

What's next? The FUBAR initiative?

Comments

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

Back when I was still doing reference work, I had to help a very sheltered freshman girl who'd learned the hard way that you shouldn't try to search for information on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front using only their acronym.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

*LAUGHS*

Oh dear. That poor girl.

[maeveth.livejournal.com]

Tea, out the nose, onto the keyboard.

That's kind of amazing.

[morgi.livejournal.com]

Well, as laughingrat pointed out, there's Family Medical Leave.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

HA! I never noticed that. It's perfect.

[skurtchasor.livejournal.com]

"The FUBAR Initiative" should be a late 70's political thriller starring either Gene Hackman or Michael Caine. Or both.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I would watch this movie.

[skurtchasor.livejournal.com]

Anybody would watch this movie....unless they HATE FUN.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

It's amazing sometimes how out of it corporations and some people are with acronyms. I still laugh about the tea-bagging.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I want to ask, "Do you understand why 'Project SOL' might be self-defeating?"

[jaina.livejournal.com]

OTP and POS are common acronyms at my job.

Hee.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Convenience store X coffee: OTP!