Department of Stupid Acronyms

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

actually exists.  At least I think it must...and civilian groups have one of their own for businesses, product lines, systems, etc.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Some of them are called backronyms.

 

the really dumb ones.

Edited November 28, 2024 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

[Pat Riot]

ACRONYM - A Consolidation Resulting in Only Numbing Your Mind

 

 

[Warden Callaway]

Back in my corporate office days,  there was always some way to reorganize.  From the beginning,  each department had secretaries. Someone came up with the bright idea to consolidate all these secretaries into one labor pool.  A room was remodeled in some off corner out of sight - no windows,  no distractions. The mail room was remodeled to include a compartment for sending stuff to and getting stuff returned.  A head cow was assigned to rule the roost.  The name she come up with for the department was, Associated Secretary Services. A.S.S.

 

It lasted for about a year until the next organization changed and the whole department was canned.  Overhead reduction.  

Edited November 28, 2024 by Warden Callaway

[Gracos Kid]

Kind of like the Fatal Accident Reconstruction Team, otherwise known as the FART Team........

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

1 hour ago, Warden Callaway said:

Back in my corporate office days,  there was always some way to reorganize.  From the beginning,  each department had secretaries. Someone came up with the bright idea to consolidate all these secretaries into one labor pool.  A room was remodeled in some off corner out of sight - no windows,  no distractions. The mail room was remodeled to include a compartment for sending stuff to and getting stuff returned.  A head cow was assigned to rule the roost.  The name she come up with for the department was, Associated Secretary Services. A.S.S.

 

It lasted for about a year until the next organization changed and the whole department was canned.  Overhead reduction.  

I've never seen a cow in a roost.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

4 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I've never seen a cow in a roost.

 

 

            ............ perhaps you should get out more often ..........  🙃

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

then there is the Department of Redundancy Department

[John Kloehr]

1 hour ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said:

then there is the Department of Redundancy Department

The Department of Redundancy reviews procedures, identifies duplication, and makes recommendations to eliminate duplication.

 

OTOH, the Department of Redundancy Department reviews information collected by the Department of Redundancy, including a full review of all information collected by the Department of Redundancy and its recommendations for approval.

 

To avoid duplication, the Department of Redundancy Department does not independently collect and verify the same  information it is reviewing nor does it issue recommendations as both such actions were previously found to be redundant by the Department of Redundancy and the recommendation to remove the redundancy was approved by the Department of Redundancy Department.

 

So there is no redundancy, the recommendation and approval functions are distinct and separate from each other and full staffing levels in each department are essential for efficient operation.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

16 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

            ............ perhaps you should get out more often ..........  🙃

I'd love to get out more often but the Warden and the doctors won't let me.  

 

They keep making me wear this Ivy League sports coat.  You know, the kind with wrap around sleeves and buckles in the back.    

[watab kid]

these have always irritated me 

 

 

just say it for cripes sakes 

Edited November 29, 2024 by watab kid

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Back when dirt was young and so was I, back when I was both a lawman, and a paramedic with a rural, seven-county paramedic system, I worked mostly out of the old depot buildings, Station 03 Glouster.

The station chief, Big John, had little respect for the bottom polishing bureaucrats at SEOEMS Control, the headquarters in Gallipolis.
He floated a proposal for advancement of our craft.

Technicians With Advanced Training.

The administration was not impressed, either with the proposal in general, or its acronym in particular.

Big John is also the one who had a custom rubber stamp made.
When he'd get a petty picayune communique from HQ, he'd drive that stamp into the felt pad of red ink, he'd stamp that bureaucratic blunder with a big red B*LLSH*T across the front, and send it back.

As I recall, he was one of the longest tenured employees in the system.

[Pat Riot]

Interesting.

 

ACRONYM = Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning :-)

 

Found here: https://www.acronymfinder.com/ACRONYM.html

[John Kloehr]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Interesting.

 

ACRONYM = Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning :-)

 

Found here: https://www.acronymfinder.com/ACRONYM.html

Not only is it an acronym, it is also a backronym. A backronym is an acronym defined after the original word required it also be an acronym.

 

There are also recursive acronyms. Recusrsive acronyms contain the acronym as one of the letters. PHP is recognized (defined) as "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor." It originally stood for "Personal Home Page" but that is not how the software actually was used when deployed.

[Caprock Kid]

Tried real hard to get them to make our Information Operations organization’s motto  “Experts In Enabling Information Operations”….E, I, E, I , O