IMHO, TLAs are a PITA · Feb 8, 10:07 AM by Dave Polaschek
One of the things I’ve noticed in my (not so) new job is that I’m having to learn yet another set of in-house acronyms. Every company seems to have a need to have a few acronyms that are their own. At one employer, it was OOTO for “Out of the Office” and WFH for “working from home”. At another, it was AFO for “Away from office”, which covered both cases. Here, it’s PTO for “Personal Time Off”.
Usually these acronyms aren’t really planned. Sometimes the source is a company handbook, and sometimes it’s just a phrase that falls into common usage.
Whatever the case, it’s easy to tell the new guy. He’s the one with the puzzled look and the bookmark to the Acronym Decoder in his browser.
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