In work codewords.

[cal72]

So anybody got any for thier fellow workmates,bosses etc that you use?

[Lord Pikey]

SMC and SMB

Verbal and written on bits of card and thrown between me and my boss

[sday12]

'Going to Admin' meant off for a swift pint at the local.
@ Ford Powertrain 'Failed Under Continuious Test'

Edited by sday12 on Tuesday 12th October 10:19

[Animal]

I work in an industry full of acronyms - or IFOA as we call it.

[308mate]

Very important to have codewords.

Back on the minesite, if you wanted to chat to a mate via the two-way, you had to put a call out and if he answers, ask him to switch to another channel so you werent chatting over the important info being relayed on the production channel. At which point, pretty much everyone on the site sat in the cab of their slow moving machine or drill-rig, switched channels with you to see what the goss was.

So we had a code:

"Copy Jim?"
"Yeah copy."
"You ned a hand mate?"
"No thanks mate, Ive only got 11 bags on the trailer. I'll be right, ta."

However many bags were on the (fictional) trailer, was the channel number to turn to.

When youre doing 4 weeks in the outback, 12 hours a day, 28 days straight, its the little things that keep you going.

[Parsnip]

Too many acronyms to count.

My two favourite "codewords" are percussive maintenance and mechanical persuasion - both translating to "smack it with a hammer till it works"

[cal72]

Our select group have Clubfoot
for a certain member of staff and Buzz session
for when we want to have a quick break.

[paul.deitch]

My teenagers..... "I have been pre-studying" = "chilling" and "Been in a meeting" = "sleeping"

[james_tigerwoods]

"Four Brains" - Was one we used for a now departed project leader/manager/contractor bloke.

It was a contraction of "st for brains" - he thought it was a compliment too - we had a salute for him and everything.

Sad, but we had to entertain ourselves somehow as he was an utter moron...

[AndrewTait]

One place I worked at, we regularly used to carry out IT/Security HBV Test when on nights.

It used to appear each night on the job logs, which to the IT guy taking over meant it had been a quiet night.

HBV Test = Hot Beverage Vending test i.e. Go to the security lodge for a brew!

The management used to go ape if the HBV test wasn't carried out each night even though they had feck all idea what it was, and would have kicked our arses if they really knew what it was. Particularly when it sometimes took several hours to complete!

[Simpo Two]

One of the directors was assigned the acronym 'LOMBARD' - 'Loads of money but a real dhead'. Slightly unfair but very funny at the time.

[alfa pint]

Egyptian PT - quick nap.

[Big Rod]

JEDI :- Just Effing Do It!

Edit due to stupidity.

Edited by Big Rod on Monday 11th October 10:54

[Pigeon]

"Phone call for Mr Ginelli" over the PA = the ice cream van is doing its rounds of the estate.

[Simbu]

I used to refer to a colleague at work (only to my non-work mates) as HW.

When she started this was Helpdesk Whale. Kinda self explanatory.

She lost a fair bit of weight during her tenure though, so became Helpdesk Wench.

She still wasn't fit.

[Dab of oppo]

Have had several code words/acronyms at previous places of work / customers etc.

CHUBB - Could help you but bks
CONTROL - Can't operate normally today reliant on layabouts
ASDA - Another st day ahead
DHL - Drop it, Hide it, Loose it
UFD - Useless fking drivers

An old boss of mine was refered to as Dogst - this was based on the thinking that Marmite is loved by some but hated by others, Dogst however is hated by everyone!

Off to Pauls house - Going for a dump.

[Herbie58]

cal72 said:

Our select group have Clubfoot
for a certain member of staff and Buzz session
for when we want to have a quick break.

Every time I read one of your posts I have to stop and re-read it to make sure that it's not just me, that you are indeed a simpleton. Please carry on.

[Shaolin]

NQR (about a person) - Not Quite Right, covers a multitude of symptoms, also "On the NQR spectrum".

[Cogcog]

ITR (in-tray research which meant going through the top bosses in-tray on nights for tasty titbits. IBR was in-bin treaserch in case the ITR failed and you had to depend upon notes and discarded paper. Bet bits were always kept locked in eth bosses top drawer but by removing the desk back panel you could get in over the top.

Information is power, and fun.

[parapaul]

Muppets.

Nothing fancy or clever, but that lot really are. And so mind numbingly stupid they haven't cottoned on yet