abbreviations/accronyms and governmental organisations
 

Why?! Why the need to spend all day thinking of new names for organisations and programmes, just so you can come up with a collection of letters to throw around?

Listening to a guy from LSIS (used to be QIA and CEL before they were merged) talking about trans-organisational relations between the LSC, DFES, BIS and LLUK, "the big drive towards continual excellence"...

Programmes and innovative think tanks, to help reduce NEETS and promote productive & cohesive communities; Skills for Growth (SfG), LSN and SFCF are keen to get involved with this sort of stuff.

I'm not feeling 100% as it is but all these accronyms are starting to make me feel a bit sick.. Thy m1te as wll b tlkin in txtspk :pukel:

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Because they're a load of blood sucking leeches who need to try and justify their own worthless jobs to support their own worthless lives?

Civil service? Pah, service to whom...

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it's alright there's a hot blonde talking about further education now.. it all makes perfect sense and I think they do a worthwhile job :razz:

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Try working with the armed forces. When I first started on a contract we had with them I had to stop them every few minutes to spell one out. They got so browned off with me it was quite funny.

I helped out in the sales pitch to renew the contract later on and the only way we were to stand a chance was to hire several stupidly expensive former officers of colonel rank and above to translate our documents into military-ese. It really was a different language when they'd finished!

It's also possibly why military types find it difficult sometimes to get a job in the outside world once they get out!!

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It's the same in my job. Every single department insists on being known by an acronym. However, thay change on such a fast basis, just when you learn one, it changes to something else!

One office at one of the stations I frequent with prisoners has a long office, maybe 60 feet long with five different "offices" in it, open plan style. Each one has a different acronym on the wall above it. I have fun winding them up making up words from the acronyms!

Can't seem to get

"Street shy, office monkeys" out of what's available.

Pete ;)

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You sure you haven't senior managnment team (SMT) stuck up anywhere they don't seem to do much at all;)

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speaking of police, we do the SOCA conference :)

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Police is terrible for it, can have a whole conversations without actually saying a full word!

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10-4

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Rubber duck

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well heres why
acronyms are used in the forces for speed of information passing and unlike civi street arent changed every 2 seconds, here are some quick examples why

right lads we are off to do a cft followed by a bpfa you'll need your mark 6's ,180 load, lsw and hump, its co's sports all ends well poets day

translation

right lads we are off to do a combat fitness test followed by a basic personal fitness test, you'll need your mark 6 tactical assult helmet a burgan with 180 pound load, a light support weapon, and a camel back water despencer, its the commanding officers sports day all ends well p1ss off early tomorrow is saturday

or even simplier

the life expectancey (yep really) and therefore max time a radioman is allowed on the net (air) at any one time is 22 seconds after that the enemy can triangulate your position and bomb the sh1te outta ya

some times expediance is a vurtue :)

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and dont even get me started on batco lol

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Lol?

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laugh out loud sweetie laugh out loud :)

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Really?

Thanks man, I never realised.

Pete ;)

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Now there's the biggest waste on the public purse, who are they and what do they do

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soca stealing other coppers allowances

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Sod'Ol crime addressed

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And like turkeys in December, they have a vested interest in electing a government that will put them on the streets ?

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well, conveniently SOCA have a big veil of secrecy to hide their operations behind... Whether it's operation tetleys or operation hobnob we'll never really get to find out I don't think...

Merseyside police were basically playing with themselves at the last one... parked a load of cars outside the LCC with big stickers saying "NO INSURANCE, VEHICLE SEIZED" and had a traffic car sat with its engine running and traffic officer inside it for the whole 2 day event...

Must admit, I did knock on his window and tell him "ere mate, you wanna get those vehicles shifted - they've got no tax either" sure I heard him call me a ***** as I walked away lol

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SOCA - secretly organising cake awarenesss

Yep, walked past those cars a couple of times. Lucky no scally's came and nicked them :plod:

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my entire work life revolves around tla's (three letter accronyms), my team is an accronym, as is my equipment , very often what i have to work with/in....and even the other agencies i work along side.

i have entire conversations just using them

if i spent all day using the long version i wouldnt get anything done ,and it wouldnt be too good for the people involved in the incidents

ttfn..see you on the dark side