bad acronym
Dec. 8th, 2009 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
For a number of years now, everyone at my work has had to write a yearly PPDP - or "Personal Professional Development Plan".
...finally, someone decided that this was a stupid title.
So they renamed it. This year, we have to write a "Personal Management System".
(And no-one noticed the acronym. No-one.)
I keep getting emails from my boss asking how my PMS is going. It's starting to weird me out...
...finally, someone decided that this was a stupid title.
So they renamed it. This year, we have to write a "Personal Management System".
(And no-one noticed the acronym. No-one.)
I keep getting emails from my boss asking how my PMS is going. It's starting to weird me out...
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:50 am (UTC)That might give them a clue...
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Date: 2009-12-08 02:58 am (UTC)One wonders why they don't actually say these things or try out the acronyms. It's like the new drug that's being advertised on TV, called Acephix -- every single actor who says it on the ad sounds like they are saying "Ass Effects" -- did NO ONE pronounce this out loud during R&D?
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Date: 2009-12-08 03:13 am (UTC)