Secret Codes You Use At Work

[Alice The Goon]

10ccs po ac qd prn.


One of the things I like about my job (I'm a medical assistant) is that we get to read, write, and speak in Secret Code. It's like a club, er... something.

Say something in your secret code.

[racinchikki]

1500 ds on b2 stp 1fld + 500 ss 3NCR.

[TVeblen]

Public library insider-speak, based on the Dewey classification for paranormal and occult.
It's used in casual references and occassional covert distress calls over the phone. It refers to exceptionally irrational patrons, who seem to listening to alien (or governmental--it varies) broadcasts through their dental work, for example. Or the guy who insisted Nietzche lived inside the control panel of the library's elevator. He rode up and down, up and down, arguing vehemently with the buttons.
Pungent shorthand, roughly equating to the "Twilight Zone' theme.

[Rufus Xavier]

Fannie sixes are off 30 bips.

[Ashtar]

(Telemarketer)
CM currently holds PBCC, wishes to apply BG w/ MR.

(most of our codes are just acronyms.)

[Triskadecamus]

I'm better known for not keeping up with the jargon.

Me: " I need to schedule some POR training."

Training Supervisor" "We changed to CRS, three years ago!"

Me: "See?"

Tris

[Gatopescado]

Back when I was in the credit underwriter biz, we used to use code for stuff like "POI" (proof of income), "PFR" (proof of finincial responsibility, ie insurance), "MAR" (max at request) and a host of others, which are too difficult to type while drinking (god, I love homebrew beer!).

One time, I submitted a loan for review that I had turned down to a director at the dealer's request. It was approved. As a "favor". :rolleyes: (it was the worst loan I've ever seen!)

In the notes, I typed "WNGTGAS-PWACD".

When the loan defaulted and went to collections, the collector contacted me and asked me what that meant and if it could be usefull in tracking the dirtbag defaulter down.

I told them it stood for, "Would Not Give This Guy A Six-Pack With A Case Down". :D

Hey, I didn't sign-off on that piece of shit.

[Sami41]

I have a regular (bar) customer named Richard who's been drinking at my place since before I worked there. He has a bumper sticker on his truck that says:

"So Few Richards, So Many Dicks."

The company I work for owns 6 bars. I have worked for them, in one location or another, for almost (May 19th anniv.) 9 years. I have managed my current location for not quite 3 years. I have managed, in general, for this company for 8 out of my 9 years.

Seven months ago my boss (the owner) hired this PunkAss to be the GM of all the bars (thus making PunkAss my boss). He NOW has 7 months experience in the bar business. He steps on my toes, talks sh*t, acts like he know's it all when he actually knows nothing. My LowMan Barteneder has more experience than my boss. In short, the guy's a pud.

His name is Richard.

So, his nickname--to both the Crew and the Clientele is:

"One of the Many."

We can, and do, say this to his face--it's not disrespectful as far as he's concerned, although it does confuse him. That makes it oh so much more fun for the rest of us.

BTW, it's only a matter of time before I start a Pit thread about One Of The Many, as he seems to piss me off daily, today included.

[Otto]

At an old job of mine at a grocery with two phone lines we used "line 3" as a code for shoplifters and other suspicious behaviour.

At another job I made up a "drinking game" based on some of the best-loved (by her) phrases and mannerisms of a particular cow-orker. She had no idea for a week why people kept saying "drink" or "chug" around her until someone clued her in.

[Smeghead]

"Hey, hand me that thing. No, not that thing. That thing!"

Actually, we've been making fun of one of our coworkers behind her back lately for her use of needlessly ornate language in her written procedures - we ran across one the other day that referred to a "fluorescent lumigraph," which normal humans call a "film". So yesterday I asked for the "positive atmospheric pressure displacement adjuster" when I wanted the pipetter.

Ah, dork fun.

[MonkeyMensch]

Check 000001.

And, That is seriously lazy!

The second refers to the phrase, "Laziness is the mother of invention." The first wouldn't be secret anymore if I told you...

[Duckster]

BTW, it's only a matter of time before I start a Pit thread about One Of The Many, as he seems to piss me off daily, today included.

The Needs Of The Few crapped on by the One Of The Many.




:D

[jjimm]

I have no secret codes. However, my grandmother once told me, when she worked at the Festival Hall in London, that if the words "Mr. Brown is in the Green Room" came over the PA system it meant "The building is on fire. Tell everyone to leave, then run for your life."

[Miss Bianca]

Social science researcher here. I wrote this scintillating prose the other day:

"Full-time vs. reduced-hours status was also a significant moderator of the relationship between parent-role quality and intention to leave one’s job; Fchange(1,85) = 7.89, p = .006."

In my own defense, I followed this sentence with two more describing the finding in English, and even included a helpful graph.

[Cosmopolitan]

Mine is, again, about acronyms more'n anything else:

"I think I'll have the kids do a KWL about the story while I prepare an IEP for the CSE".

[Homebrew]

I made up a fun piece of slang using jargon from a nurse friend.

"Pericare PO Stat"

[Laughing Lagomorph]

Does the SOP for that ELISA specify DMEM or PBS for the cells before the SDS-PAGE?

[Just Ed]

We've got a DTC break on LU and the VP wants to know if the DWAC dropped.

[KSO]

Per P.B. 17-49, the MSJ must be accompanied by an MOL.

And speaking of secret codes, I learned today that before my dad shipped out for WWII, he and his sister worked out a code so when he wrote home he could tell her where he was starting with the second word of the second sentence of the second paragraph...

[jweb]

For the CFP project, first we need to combine the data in CIS with CIF, then transfer that data to CDS and add in any additional information from CMS.

[ioioio]

Here are the subjects of the last four emails in my work inbox:
OOTO
FTP GET from IBM
stsa,b,d,g maint level problem r
PROD SVC DUMP

OOTO means out of the office.

In my job, we basically speak in acronyms. One that we invented is GABC: goofey ass bridge call. These occur when there is a problem and 50 people who are trying to cover their ass get on a phone call to harrass the three or four people who would otherwise be able to work on the problem. There is a certain type of person who apparently loves these calls and will keep them going for hours, continually demanding that more people be forced to call in. Sometimes a discussion about whether or not to end the call will go on for 30 minutes.

Another acronym I like is PEBCAK: problem exists between chair and keyboard.

[neuroman]

lainaf, when I worked IT we preferred the ever popular "ID-10-T" error (http://jargon.watson-net.com/jargon-print.asp?w=ID10T+error).

Sami41, that is deliciously funny. How did that punk-ass get hired in the first place?

TVeblen, I really like using "133" for weirdos :D

[pilot141]

"Maintain 180 KIAS to the OM, cleared ILS RWY 22R. LAHSO in effect."

"Roger."

[Rick]

At my work I teach the students to hook the VADIS connector to the DLC to read DTC's in the ECM, TCM, BCM, and ETM.
:smack:

[fishbicycle]

From EAS we get an RWT and an RMT, we schedule the SOSS to timeshift on DAD-1 or DAD-2 from DDU, DDQ or DDW and route to DAT, MD or CD. We can bring in a source from Z5L and Z5R to C20 in MCR and send it back out by ISDN. There are undoubtedly a lot more codes and jargon that we use; it's just that we use them so often, we don't notice we're speaking another language that nobody else outside the business (and some in it) would understand.

[Smeghead]

Does the SOP for that ELISA specify DMEM or PBS for the cells before the SDS-PAGE?
I understood that...

[Mr. Moto]

Me and Willy were lollygagging by the scuttlebutt after being aloft to boy-butter up the antennas and were just perched on a bollard eyeballing a couple of bilge rats and flangeheads using crescent hammers to pack monkey shit around a fitting on a handybilly.

All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait. The pecker-checker was a sewer pipe sailor and the deckape was a gator. Maybe being blackshoes on a bird farm surrounded by a gaggle of cans didn't set right with either of those gobs.

The deck ape ran through the nearest hatch and dogged it tight because he knew the penis machinist was going to lay below, catch him between decks and punch him in the snot locker. He'd probably wind up on the binnacle list but Doc would find a way to gundeck the paper or give it the deep six to keep himself above board.

We heard the skivvywaver announce over the bitch box that the breadburners had creamed foreskins on toast and SOS ready on the mess decks so we cut and run to avoid the clusterfuck when the twidgets and cannon cockers knew chow was on.

We were balls to the wall for the barn and everyone was preparing to hit the beach as soon as we doubled-up and threw the brow over. I had a ditty bag full of fufu juice that I was gonna spread on thick for the bar hogs with those sweet bosnias. Sure beats the hell out of brown bagging. Might even hit the acey-duecy club and try to hook up with a Westpac widow. They were always on the dance floor on amateur night.

[Wasabee]

I know this doesn't fit but..

I used to work with children. My co-workers and I started saying "Lost my business" instead of "Lost my shit" (which is the hip way of saying 'laughed my ass off'). Eventually for something so funny that "lost my business" wasn't good enough to describe it "I went bankrupt" was used.

[Gest]

How much of that did you understand Mr. Moto?

[Mr. Moto]

I could interpret near all of it for you. I lived this lifestyle for years, so you do pick up the lingo quick.

Bosnia, for instance, stands for Big Ol' Standard Navy Issue Ass.

[Gest]

Well I could interpret near all of it myself as well. However, Westpac Widow merely rang a bell and so a Google search reveals, well... it wasn't actually from your navy days now was it? Cheeky boy.

[pilot141]

In the Mr Moto tradition (but from my AF Days):

Well, the weatherguessers predict WOXOF, but outside OPS its CAVU. Tell the sweaties that we're launching ASAP. CP, you go to the jet and program the INS. We're using the NATs on our way to EDAF, and we'll be flying in RVSM airspace. Calculate an ETP, and advise CP (a different CP) that our MEDEVAC PAX need to be on the bus in twenty minutes. Make sure ATOC knows about the HAZMAT that TACC wants to put on board. BTW, the return flight is an OME for a new AC, so do your best to make sure he doesn't Q-3.

Meaningless to most, but anyone who flew airlift for the USAF knows what it means!

[MonkeyMensch]

Well, the weatherguessers predict WOXOF, but outside OPS its CAVU.

CAVU? I believe the correct term there is CAFB. Small nit to pick but what else is there to do at this hour?

[Cub Mistress]

I made up a fun piece of slang using jargon from a nurse friend.

"Pericare PO Stat"

This is most excellent. I am stealing this, stat.

My contribution (this has been real dinner conversation before): I was 33 traffic down Broad on a 10-86 when I ran into a 10-14 to Roselawn. No 10-25 at the address so I went 10-8, 10-98, 10-19, no report, 10-7.

[Mops]

When initiating a conversation with some of my colleagues:

RTS?

CTS.

(as we work with some automation systems still using RS 232)

[Master Wang-Ka]

I used to work with BDs and EDs out of MHMR, setting up ITPs and maintaining their PFs until I got my TC. Now, instead of ITPs, I do IEPs, and frankly, I work with a better class of BD and ED, to the point where I never have to do hard TDs or soft TDs, much less four-points or thorazine screams. Admittedly, working with the SD is different and somewhat more of a PITA than dealing with MHMR -- the SD is much closer and more in my face, poking around, screwing with things -- but the kids really make up for it. I don't think anyone's spit in my face or tried to bite me since I changed careers, not even the worst EDHC we have.

Now, all I have to really worry about is the serious DMFs.

BD: behavior disorder
ED: emotional disorder
MHMR: Texas State Bureau of Mental Health and Mental Resources
ITP: individual treatment plan
PF: permanent file
TC: teaching credentials
IEP: individual education plan, required for children recieving special ed services
TD: "takedown," a euphemism for "physically preventing a child from harming himself or others."
four-point: a type of restraint where a mental patient is literally tied, spread-eagled, to a bed
thorazine screams: howling for the nurse to bring you a trank because this patient is about to chew his own lips off and then try for yours
SD: school district
PITA: pain in the ass
EDHC: emotionally disordered hard case
DMF: dumb...

[Ringo]

Every morning at work I get ~150 pages of morning reports covering all of our active wells. After almost 24 years I still occasionally encounter some acronym that neither I nor my colleagues can decipher. The pages are, I suspect, wholly incomprehensible to the uninitiated, full of GIH (going in hole), POOH (pull out of hole), WOO (waiting on orders), WOW (waiting on weather), TIH (tool in hole), squeezing, reaming, etc.

[pilot141]

CAVU? I believe the correct term there is CAFB. Small nit to pick but what else is there to do at this hour?

Hm. CAVU means Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited. Basically a clear, perfect day for flying. What does CAFB mean?

[Sassy]

We need 15 TEU at MSY - must be IICL and AV for deadhead

:D

[Taters]

We use a bunch of Army acronyms where I work, so they're not really secret code.

However, my co-worker and I have a secret code name for our former team leader: 404 (error page not found)

[Carm6773]

Mine is, again, about acronyms more'n anything else:

"I think I'll have the kids do a KWL about the story while I prepare an IEP for the CSE".

Don't forget the LRE in your IEP for your ESE student. Also, remember that he is LEP and will need ESOL. His NRT scores will determine if he gets an AIP and placement in ELP.

Ain't education jargon great???

[Jonathan Chance]

He's renew-G but came in as a jaybird. Send him to series STD and make him a pay for play.

[Tenar]

Well, there's "Hope he brought his toothbrush," or "hope he enjoys his bologna sandwich," which means "this idiot is going to jail TODAY!" (People being held in detention in our courthouse awaiting hearing or transportation to jail get bologna sandwiches for lunch.)

And (said to attorneys who ask for adjournment): "Did Mr. Green call in sick?" (In other words, are you not going to appear because your client never paid the retainer.)

However, I prefer Banter! (http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_scripts/banter.txt)

[Ringo]

I want to pop a high-sided three way where there's a stacked strat trap with an AVO.

IOW, I want to drill a wildcat into what I believe is a structural hydrocarbon trap (i.e., reservoir) whose trapping characteristics include porous and permeable reservoir quality rock dipping in three directions with critical trapping closure provided by the target being upthrown on a normal fault. Additionally, we think that the seismic data has revealed a direct hydrocarbon indicator in the form of an AVO (amplitude variation with offset) anomaly that we can only explain as a facies change within the chronostratigraphic unit mapped, and we will see that on the way down to the primary.

[KarlGauss]

68 y.o. ♀ c/o SOBOE & SOA. HPH: DM X 20y, HTN, COPD, CAD. NKDA
f PND, N&V

o/e VSS
H&N: NAD
PERLA, JVP not ↑
Chest clear to IPPA
CVS: fS3 fS4
Abdo: f↑LS, fK
CNS: WNL

[VarlosZ]

MR from EP w/ AJo, ES; then SP TPTK vs.3 on flop (???).


This is representative of my no limit hold 'em (poker) notation, describing an opponent's play on a previous hand. It translates as: Minimum raise from early position with Ace-Jack offsuit, early stages [of the tournament]; then slow-plays top-pair-top-kicker versus 3 opponents on the flop (what an idiot!)

[MonkeyMensch]

Hm. CAVU means Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited. Basically a clear, perfect day for flying. What does CAFB mean?

I'm surprised you weren't laughing at this one pilot141.

CAFB = Clear And Fucking Beautiful.

[pilot141]

:smack:

Don't pick my nits with humor! I'll never get it!

;)

[dwc1970]

"After you run the RFU tests on the DCC, be sure to update TERS since FC is coming up soon, and we'll discuss the results in the QPT meeting." Phrases like this are commonly spoken around here. Lots of alphabet soup where I work.

[Cosmopolitan]

Don't forget the LRE in your IEP for your ESE student. Also, remember that he is LEP and will need ESOL. His NRT scores will determine if he gets an AIP and placement in ELP.

Ain't education jargon great??? Seeing as how I'm still a university student, I had to look up a couple those, but I got some great links out of it!

I've been hearing "ESL" much less often & "ELL" much more often these days - as a student, rather than just hearing about scores on the news & such.

Just FYI. :)

[zamboniracer]

My brother who works at NASA claims that a come term they throw around is "TWA", which of course stands for "Three Word Acronym."

Those rocket scientists are funny guys, I'll tell you.

[zamboniracer]

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[don't ask]

My brother who works at NASA claims that a come term they throw around is "TWA", which of course stands for "Three Word Acronym."

Those rocket scientists are funny guys, I'll tell you.

We use TLA or "three letter acronym".

Secret to users is ADADS (as dumb as dog shit).

[SeGate]

133
Public library insider-speak, based on the Dewey classification for paranormal and occult.
It's used in casual references and occassional covert distress calls over the phone.


I work in an academic library and we created a "Code Bob." Some of our staff seem to attract groupies. They come in during their shifts and/or ask for them by name if they aren't at the reference desk. So when the librarian on duty intercoms and office, no matter who answers, the desk librarian calls them Bob.

Librarian At Desk (LAD): dials office

Librarian In Office (LIO): This is LIO.

LAD: Hi, Bob. Is LIO there?

LIO: Oh crap. Is trenchcoat guy back again?


It just gives people a choice about dealing with someone who may make them very uncomfortable.

[beagledave]

Two from friends..

A friend of mine used to be a switchboard operator at a hospital.

"Paging Dr Heart to rm 133" meant a heart attack. Most hospitals have similar kinds of codes to alert medical staff without (hopefully) freaking out patients and visitors.

From school psychologists (and related fields).. FLK (funny looking kid) hopefully self explanatory.

[Hal Briston]

To search our online database for news articles about Cecil, TSD, etc., but not written by Cecil:

((in=(i4751 or i4753 or ipubl or icomp or iint) and straight dope and (cecil adams or SDMB or straight dope message board)) not (ns=nnam or by=cecil adams))

That's what I spend (the non-dope part of) my day doing -- writing searches that are usually much, much longer than that one (I'm constantly bumping up against our 2,048 character-count limit). Damn, I love what I do. :D

[Spiff]

Me and Willy were lollygagging by the scuttlebutt after being aloft to boy-butter up the antennas

All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait. The pecker-checker was

because he knew the penis machinist was going to lay below

creamed foreskins on toast and SOS ready on the mess decks so we cut and run to avoid the clusterfuck when the twidgets and cannon cockers knew chow was on.

We were balls to the wall You don't have to be homoerotic to join the Navy, but if you are, it sure does help you to fit right in ... :D

[gotpasswords]

At Faire, our two "danger" phrases are "carbon condition" and "in very sooth."

"In very sooth , I must away to the privy" would mean "Outta my way! I gotta go to the bathroom RIGHT NOW!"

Carbon is how we refer to fire so as not to panic the patrons who are in a mazelike area surrounded by hay, straw and burlap.

[The Great Sun Jester]

Nowhere near as inclusive as MrMoto's illustration, but in the Army we actually had a guy who was "an Army of One." Meaning, he had his own cant that pretty much drew blank stares until he translated. Poor guy. One phrase that did not draw blank stares, but hysterical laughter instead:
"Well, now I gotta go cop some squak from the mutant at the head shed." Basically, he needed to draw a quart of oil for his Hummer. Yeah, ya had to be there, but 10 years later I still laugh myself silly at his delivery.

[Mr. Moto]

You don't have to be homoerotic to join the Navy, but if you are, it sure does help you to fit right in ... :D


Well, they didn't let women on those combat vessels until the nineties. And they still haven't allowed them on subs.

I'm not saying it allows for a "homoerotic" environment, as you say. I will say, however, that if you leave a bunch of guys together, with no women around, they'll eventually, well, curse like sailors. :D

[Rico]

464.900 up 5meg DPL 711. Simplex on the second channel.

[TheOnlySaneOne]

I go to a public high-school in the inner city. Everything is in code.

Fo' shizzle.

[Smeghead]

Hey, is that NCEB a PML RT or a BCR-abl RT?

[MonkeyMensch]

Honey's bitchin' again. Someone reset G54 and I got a soft Y-axis overrun.

[SlickRoenick]

At the hospital we don't have any secret codes aside from the regular codes for emergencies. At Ace Hardware me and the boys have a secret code whenever a hot girl or milf walks in:

There's a customer asking about power tools heading towards electrical*

*or some other irrelevant department such as plumbing in which said power tool is moving, it's just for navigational reason so we all know where they are :cool:

[Dan Turk]

I need a GSP and a P I E in the window on the fly to sell me, lead's on 31, 35 open, 9 top down.

Mmmmmm......restaurants.

[Cinnamon Girl]

At the hospital we don't have any secret codes aside from the regular codes for emergencies. At Ace Hardware me and the boys have a secret code whenever a hot girl or milf walks in:
There's a customer asking about power tools heading towards electrical* *or some other irrelevant department such as plumbing in which said power tool is moving, it's just for navigational reason so we all know where they are :cool: :D You just gotta have a code for a nice piece of ass walking through the door! At a couple of Starbucks I've worked in, everyone behind the counter looks up when someone says, "There's sugar on the floor!" but no one grabs a broom. Unfortunately, it's also becoming a reference for significant others coming in to visit, which is just disappointing as hell. Hope someone comes up with something better.

Obviously, you never reference anything financial-related in front of customers, so codes have been developed for that as well. At my old store, they stupidly said, "The baby's crying," when alerting the shift supervisor that the alarm on the safe was going off. Does anyone really believe that employees bring babies to work and leave them unattended in the backroom? Puhlease! I prefer, "The scones are done." And "I'm going to the bakery," to announce I'm going to the bank.

Still working on codes for cashiers that need more small bills or change in their register. Any suggestions?

[lightingtool]

These aren't really secret codes, as they're pretty easy to figure out, but they keep us amused....

"Why wasn't that thing working?"
"Oh, there was a problem with the O-N-O-F-F actuator."
Translation: "I forgot to turn the damn thing on."

"Why wasn't that thing working?"
"We had some trouble with a high impedance air gap."
Translation: "I forgot to plug the damn thing in."

[Shirt Ninja 13]

Me and Willy were lollygagging by the scuttlebutt after being aloft to boy-butter up the antennas and were just perched on a bollard eyeballing a couple of bilge rats and flangeheads using crescent hammers to pack monkey shit around a fitting on a handybilly.

All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait. The pecker-checker was a sewer pipe sailor and the deckape was a gator. Maybe being blackshoes on a bird farm surrounded by a gaggle of cans didn't set right with either of those gobs.

The deck ape ran through the nearest hatch and dogged it tight because he knew the penis machinist was going to lay below, catch him between decks and punch him in the snot locker. He'd probably wind up on the binnacle list but Doc would find a way to gundeck the paper or give it the deep six to keep himself above board.

We heard the skivvywaver announce over the bitch box that the breadburners had creamed foreskins on toast and SOS ready on the mess decks so we cut and run to avoid the clusterfuck when the twidgets and cannon cockers knew chow was on.

We were balls to the wall for the barn and everyone was preparing to hit the beach as soon as we doubled-up and threw the brow over. I had a ditty bag full of fufu juice that I was gonna spread on thick for the bar hogs with those sweet bosnias. Sure beats the hell out of brown bagging. Might even hit the acey-duecy club and try to hook up with a Westpac widow. They were always on the dance floor on amateur night.

Oh my God...that almost looked like English until I started reading...
*headache*
*bamf*

[Mr. Moto]

That's right, Shirt Ninja 13.

And the hilarious part is how this language gets taught to a new seaman, when he reports to boot camp. Because the company commanders don't want the recruits talking like landlubbers.

"Recruit, go stand by that scuttlebutt."
"What's a scuttlebutt, Petty Officer?"
"You don't know what a scuttlebutt is, you beach-loving piece of crap? Maybe you'd like to taste some of that beach, huh? Drop and give me 30!"

A scuttlebutt, btw, is a drinking fountain. You cannot call it a drinking fountain in the Navy, however. You will be mocked mercilessly if you do.

[Jurph]

My college roommate and I (having also roomed together in high school) developed something of a secret language between ourselves. Most of it was unintelligible and utter gibberish, but if we were walking somewhere and a pretty girl walked by, whichever of us noticed her first would say,

"Ye-e-e-ep." (almost "Yeah-up")

and wait for the acknowledgement,

"Uh-huh." (more like "On-hon")

before capping it with a third "Yep." for emphasis. The equivalent is roughly,

"Look at that beautiful specimen of a female, who is attractive enough to interrupt our conversation."
"I see her. Boy howdy, she's nice looking. Let's both look just a little longer."
"Yep."

Often, for several moments after she passed, we'd still be mumbling "Yep"s and "Uh-huh"s back and forth. Because men are pigs and easily distracted. Besides, she was really cute.

[Gfactor]

How about three in the back end??

[TVeblen]

Still working on codes for cashiers that need more small bills or change in their register. Any suggestions?

"George needs a break?"

[Sublight]

"The creative brief was going fine until the man who isn't started $1.99-ing"

[irishgirl]

Accident and emergency rooms are the worst.

"Where's Mrs O'Reilly?"

"That the LOL in NAD whose family are suffering from Acopia? She's talking to the wife of Gomer with the RP by the vending machine."

"What about the FLK who came in earlier?"
"His parent's arrived, no need to panic, it's an FLF".

LOL in NAD- little old lady in no apparent distress
Acopia- can't cope with granny, want to unload her on the hospital
Gomer-get out of my emergency room, usually meaning a really sick old person with about 10 things wrong with them at once.
RP- Reality Problem ie severe dementia
FLK-funny looking kid
FLF-funny looking family

[Coil]

Every morning at work I get ~150 pages of morning reports covering all of our active wells. After almost 24 years I still occasionally encounter some acronym that neither I nor my colleagues can decipher. The pages are, I suspect, wholly incomprehensible to the uninitiated, full of GIH (going in hole), POOH (pull out of hole), WOO (waiting on orders), WOW (waiting on weather), TIH (tool in hole), squeezing, reaming, etc.

You're in the porn industry? :)

[SlickRoenick]

Come to think of it, there is 1 code at the hospital that is sorta secret. It's the CODE BROWN, although it's usually not called outloud over the PA system, everyone "nose" when it's in effect

[Bernard Marx]

Berthed PST P1/2. 1A, 1B GTRB 8HNFS. 1, 4 SSDG O/L 2, 3 S/D. In DC3X, FP state B in force

[elfkin477]

We don't have many secret codes were I work, but there are some. A QAC (or as we insist on saying, "quack"...much to the dismay of the CEO. Hey, if he wants to say Q-A-C power to him) is your supervisor.

A CRR is a test you must take in some content areas - but not mine :) - in order to qualify to score an item. What exactly it stands for, I forget. Computer something something.

A" [insert state] One" is a response that is so terrible you can hardly believe you have give the kid credit for it. An example of this would be: "write an essay about where you'd like to suggest someone visit in your town" and the answer is " My house." There are certain states that don't allow you to give zeros, so even a phrase gets the lowest score. You don't hear this as much any more since fewer states forbid the use of zeros now.

Of course, you find the occasional response that is totally NFC...but you've got to score it anyway, even if it makes your brain hurt trying to understand what the kid is getting at. no fucking clue, of course

[HeyHomie]

I recently referred JM 30638 from CSSU/ICM to CSSU/ACT, but my referral was deflected because of his Hx of utilizing both PSR and ESP.

[PastAllReason]

As with others, where I work we are loaded with acronyms. An example: eBS consists of CIMS, COMS, CEMS, CE and formerly CAMS. CAMS moved to another BU, Finance. Other acronyms for BUs: PPR, LR, TS, and the ever popular S & M. We have applications that include PPS, GIS, and the one that usually causes anyone who has seen Office Space to laugh - TPS.

[GilaB]

When I first get to work in the morning, I head over to TC to check on my MTLn-3 ErbB3-overexpressors. If they've gotten to 50-75%, I throw the alpha-MEM (+ 5% FBS and 1% P/S) and the DPBS into the 37 degree, wait about 30 minutes, and pass at 1:20.

The Scientist's Creed: why use a name when there's a perfectly good acronym available?

[Gcat]

I work at a comic book store and the only code we use is 80s as in "Someone got some comics to sell. I think they are 80s."

80s means any comics we think are not worth anything, but we still have to get someone who knows what we have and don't have, just to make sure it's not something we surprisingly need.

80s comes from the fact that comics from the 1980s aren’t even worth the cover price (So, sometimes it's not even a code, just what they have, but what they have is an "80s").

Reading this I now must try and get my work to use secret codes.
We get way to many 133 and it would be great way to give the newer people a heads up about the "fun" they are about to have. ;)

[gyt_fx]

fuk u h4x0r awpwhore. im 1337

(lol...) Just what some of those little children say on Counter Strike...

[matt_mcl]

I don't really need a code to talk to all one of us who work for McLauchlin Global Translating Enterprises Ltd.

I did use to work for the transit company, though, so I will tell you that if you're in Montreal and you hear a code being called that begins "cent-trente" (130), that's an employee's number. If you hear one that begins "neuf cent" (900), that means that Something Bad has Happened. Get ready for delays.

[Agentb]

Stuff the PDF and FTP ASAP.