are there too many abbreviations ?

[vulcan]

This afternoon I was sitting in the clinic waiting for my appointment with the doctor. A young man,early thirties came in and said to the receptionist, Can you tell me where the I T department is ? She looked at him and said, we have computers but no I T department. He leaned closer to whisper but he didn't know about my 20/20 hearing, I heard him say, The ingrowing toenail department.

[tinkerbell23]

Hahah thats a stupid one! Surley he meant chiropody dept! X

[douglas9401]

O, IC, LOL

[carlton23]

`Podiatry Dept` would be correct. I gotta have my toe-nails cut to-morrow by one of them.

[Ankou]

was it an std clinic ?


(standard treatment delivered)

[factor-fiction]

When I worked in a management consultancy role for a couple of years I became rather proficient in the use of what we called TLAs (three letter abbreviations/acronyms)- SLAs, TQM, ITT, ICT, BPR...
This tool was quite useful:
http://www.ddexcellen.../BaloneyGenerator.pdf

[rowanwitch]

The cancer CNS for CNS cancer has a clinic on a tuesday PM
From a report I was editing recently
Clinical nurse specialist central nervous system

[Kayless]

PMSL

[cathfromsaron]

heard from a guy in a famous engineering company: they called their recent important product FBP, and this caught on all through the echelons. unbeknown to the top brass, it stood for 'effin' big plane', and they were calling FBP in press conferences and the works! lol!

[stoofur]

I work for a company who used to have Business Unit Managers. They then realised that people were abbreviating the title down to a three letter Acronym.

They are now called Business Unit Leaders.

[bibblebub]

AAAAAAA = American Association Against Acronym and Abbreviation Abuse

[Andyvon]

My brother is a senior manager for an American computer company and he often talks about computers and his job in gobbledegook. When I asked him why he says people in the industry talk like that so they can keep their conversations private and lay-people like me don't understand them. He was quite serious too!

[ichkeria]

It sounds to me very much as though this person was making a joke!

On the subject of abbreviations I am always amused that The Federation of Small Businesses has the same abbreviation as the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (Russian Federal Security Service) (!). The local business magazine is always advertising FSB promotions - bringing your own flask of tea is advisable!