The importance of thinking with acronyms

accalia

Got an email in my inbox this morning:

From: Marketdroid Alpha
To: All Staff Worldwide
Subject: Announcing new employee engagement program

Blah blah blah new program

Blah Blah named: Community Contribution Collaboration Program*

blah blah blah

So i sent this reply:

From: Accalia
To: Marketdroid Alpha
Subject: RE: Announcing new employee engagement program

You do realize what that acronym would be, right?

not two minutes later:

From: Marketdroid Alpha
To: All Staff Worldwide
Subject: RE: Announcing soon to be renamed employee engagement program

Yeah, we're going to have to rename that program. We'll send out a mail shortly with a better thought out name.

Until then please keep in mind that the program and its participation incentives are still active

* - Not actually the name of the program, but the acronym would be the same...

aliceif

And they probably didn't misspell "collaboration" ...

smallshellscript

@accalia said:

Until then please keep in mind that the program and its participation incentives are ~~still active~~ mandatory, comrade...

FTFY

accalia

@aliceif said:

And they probably didn't misspell "collaboration" ...

fixed, they would have had a hard time misspelling it, as previously noted that's not the name of the program (i changed all four words) but they did spell them right so i should too.

chubertdev

"For more information, consult the Pravda..."

hungrier

Technically, CCCP (Roman letters) only looks like СССР (Cyrillic letters equivalent to SSSR).

accalia

yes, but how much weight do you expect that to hold with SJWs?

ijij

@accalia said:

not two minutes later:

Can you send M.A. a box of cookies or something from me?

That's actually a really stand-up response!

Most un-expected.

accalia

@ijij said:

Can you send M.A. a box of cookies or something from me?

hmm... i'll think about it. ;-)

@ijij said:

Most un-expected.

around these parts (this company) that's pretty par for the course actually.

ijij

That they name programs "CCCP", or that they can say "Oops" without going through a long series of approvals, backtracking and blame shifiting?

accalia

the second one.

the first one.... well only by accident and no one actually writing it down in acronym form yet.

ijij

Fortunate, you are.

DCRoss

@chubertdev said:

"For more information, consult the Pravda..."

There is no pravda in Izvestia, and no izvestia in Pravda.

chubertdev

@DCRoss said:

There is no pravda in Izvestia, and no izvestia in Pravda.

izvestia?

antiquarian

News.

DCRoss

"Izvestia" ("Известия", really) means "News", and it has been a major Russian newspaper since 1917.

"Pravda" ("Правда") means "Truth", and it was the official newspaper of The Party from 1912 to 1991.

Since both publications had spin levels somewhere between "Fox" and "Weekly World News", it was a common Russian joke before the fall of the USSR that "There is no truth in 'The News' and no news in 'The Truth'". It's a little bit funnier in Russian, and a lot funnier after a litre or so of vodka.

chubertdev

Cliff notes:
@DCRoss said:

It's a little bit funnier in Russian, and a lot funnier after a litre or so of vodka.

SirTwist

Besides, CCCP is already the Combined Community Codec Pack. And yes, they play up the similarity to СССР.

chubertdev

thedailywtf.comm is that way

da_Doctah

In Soviet Russia, misleading acronym devises you.

BurmesePenguin

@accalia said:

>You do realize what that acronym would be, right?

Cu Curru Cucu Paloma ?

hungrier

You mean thedailywtf.su?

boomzilla

@accalia said:

yes, but how much weight do you expect that to hold with SJWs?

I'd think they'd like the acronym.

accalia

@boomzilla said:

I'd think they'd like the acronym.

really? because i was sure they'd hate this guy

boomzilla

@accalia said:

because i was sure they'd hate this guy

They're full of contradictions. Also, they didn't know him when he was part of the USSR. They think a lot of horrible things are actually good, so you can't rely on their judgment.

accalia

@boomzilla said:

so you can't rely on their judgment.

or his to judge from his choice in makeup.

boomzilla

@accalia said:

or his to judge from his choice in makeup.

That's very culturist of you.

accalia

@boomzilla said:

That's very culturist of you.

what? thinking that that shade of pink does absolutely nothing for his skin tone?

he should have gone a bit more earthy to draw out his natural highlights ant picking either yellow or blue for the eye shadow would have allowed for an even better match and overall more aesthetically pleasing look.