Post AJ8gJTdnJPEhmvWFUm by ankitpati@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AJ7ffYNS5YEdjisVge by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-05-04T22:42:31Z
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It's funny in corporations how some things are just flat out lost in time.Boss: What's ABC acronym stand for?Me (been with the company 10+ years): Uhhh, <<this>> I think? Let me check.Me: Hey other guy, what's ABC acronym stand for?Other guy (been with the company 15+ years): Uhhhh <<this>> maybe? Or maybe <<other this>>?No one knows.
(DIR) Post #AJ7fnIcyWrrNCrpgWW by thrrgilag@fosstodon.org
2022-05-04T22:43:57Z
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@mike that sounds very very familiar. 😆
(DIR) Post #AJ7gs7NdsEIDj3WRJg by specter@eattherich.club
2022-05-04T22:56:00Z
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@mike I think you could also more broadly apply this to roles, projects and most of corp organization taxonomy. Bullshit jobs and whatnot
(DIR) Post #AJ7hDyLi8Eri5S2WvY by mike@libertynode.net
2022-05-04T22:59:57Z
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@mike@fosstodon.org we’ve actually setup a glossary at Automattic for these sorts of things that will give us a definition on hover for the first instance it appears in our internal documentation/communication.
(DIR) Post #AJ7hWITS2y33iQOki0 by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-05-04T23:03:16Z
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@mike@libertynode.net That's smart. We definitely should have done that.
(DIR) Post #AJ7i77IkY70TmLwwUK by codeHaiku@fosstodon.org
2022-05-04T23:09:56Z
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@mike Sounds like those that forget acronyms need some JIT OJT ASAP.
(DIR) Post #AJ81UWUwvsdZiNWxOK by seb@ioc.exchange
2022-05-05T02:47:03Z
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@mike Yeah, we have like 25 different committees that all have some sort of acronym and those acronyms are all so similar that folks who are on multiple of these committees totally forget what is what.
(DIR) Post #AJ8Nob45rQjof5whrU by gidorah@fosstodon.org
2022-05-05T06:57:11Z
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@mike I was at a company once that had a glossary of TLAs, and there was an acronym that had two different definitions.
(DIR) Post #AJ8fwjXg1cXsRdoSCe by ankitpati@mastodon.social
2022-05-05T10:20:20Z
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@mike English solved the <<other this>> problem centuries ago. It’s called <<that>>.#GrammarVigilante
(DIR) Post #AJ8gJTdnJPEhmvWFUm by ankitpati@mastodon.social
2022-05-05T10:24:14Z
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@mike I *am* at a company which has a scalable web app solely to serve a live-searchable glossary. Any pronounceable keyboard-mash of 3 to 5 letters is bound to return multiple exact hits.
(DIR) Post #AJ9ABVTPc0WzmPmK9o by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-05-05T15:59:10Z
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@ankitpati I considered <<that>>, but <<that>> also has some implied distance. You don't use it to describe something you're holding in your hand for example. It just didn't feel right in the moment. Ideally, I feel like both options would have been described as <<this>>, but that could cause confusion in a text based medium. Honestly, there doesn't feel like there's an option that works from all angles.
(DIR) Post #AJ9AUmCNeTxJ9e061A by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-05-05T16:02:38Z
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@gidorah There's an acronym at my current company that's all over the place. It's used so much it feels like filler. When I started there I asked what the acronym meant, and you could just tell by the look on their face I was going to get an info dump. There's a department, a product, a data warehouse, other things that all use the same acronym. This company is terrible with them. The was literally a team at one point that was (and this is official) called MSHIT. Someone decided M SHIT was good.
(DIR) Post #AJ9fKEGw24APcHa7Qe by gidorah@fosstodon.org
2022-05-05T21:48:08Z
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@mike That's pretty funny. Reminds me of the ill named joint venture between Nigerian Gas and Gazprom. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigaz