In environmental assessments, we look for evidence of LUST on properties.
LUST = leaking underground storage tank(s)
We have male and female connectors, which mate. Sometimes you sell a prduct along with its mating connectors.
If you need to hook up two males or two females, you need (depending on the type of cable) either a male or female bullet or a gender changer.
In the two-way radio business, slang for programming a radio with certain frequencies and other characteristics is called “hosing.”
“Hey, Ken, hose this thing for me, willya?”
Retail has a few phrases that come up occasionally, such as
“Bete, I need you on the floor right now.”
Where I used to work, intending to count out an employee’s register drawer atthe end of the night was always announced (loudly) as “I’m going to pull Bete now.” Or better yet "Bete really needs to be pulled ".
Unfortunatly I was the only one who was amused by this, I’m hoping some English dopers here will appreciate it.
Where I work now they have a need to abreveate everything. So Book Information becomes “Bookfo”, Music information becomes “Mufo”…inevitably pronounced “Mofo”.
I have several cow-orkers that monitor the mud level in the annulus.
Switching over to Bringlish and calling rubber bands “elastics” or just plain “rubbers.”
In naval architecture, a ship hull is represented by lines in three orthogonal planes: station lines longitudinally, waterlines vertically, and buttock lines transversely. All the other engineers can say it with a straight face…
The various plates making up the hull are welded edge-to-edge, which is known as a “butt weld” or “butt seam.”
I work in a packaging manufacturer and we have our ouwn diecutter. It uses a die tool to cut and score paperboard that will be carted over to the gluer to be folded and glued and shipped.
Whats so naughty about that? well nuthin really except that in some jobs we need to use a female stripper after the paperboard is diecut (its actually a wood board with holes to puch out scrap peices of paperboard) its used primarily with a female jig but then we have some other jobs where the scrap peices are so big that we need to mount a male stripper on top of the female stripper. :D:D
I don’t write C++ code anymore, but when I did, I used to be able to say things like:
“Hey, can you just get your friend to touch my private member?”
This was funner when I was talking to a co-worker of mine who went by the name of “Woody”
I work in a veterinary hospital. We always get a kick out of the clients who call to make an appointment for their dog’s annual “Pervo” (Parvo) or “Bordello” (Bordetella) vaccines:) .
Feeding a baby in the Special Care Nursery (Neonatal ICU), I asked a male RN student to grab a nipple, no, not the white one, grab my pink one ( used for preemies, I had set it out on the warmer ). He sighed happily “Oh, Cyn”.
Yep - there’s nothing like reading “nipple up the BOP” on a drilling report…
and I know that BOP is “blow out preventor” or some such, but I’m still unsure about the nippling.
I’m a soldier. I got some strange looks when I used the term “buttstroke” in public once. It means striking someone with the butt of a rifle.
We have an actual procedure for removing product from a certain type of tank that’s called …
sorry
Suck and blow.
I’ve also gotten a fit of the giggles when I used to be an aircraft refueler and needed to “reel out my hose and check for cracks and abrasions”.
At my work we frequently say “I’m taking a dump”, which means I am making a backup of the database and creating a file with the file extension “.dmp”.
About 6 months ago, upper managers at my plant made a big deal about charting something they called “Gross Potential,” sort of a daily efficiency figure. Soon, folks on the floor shortened it to “GroPot,” and asked each other, “Did we make our GroPot today?” Funny, we don’t chart that any more.
For us, “hosing” is the way to fix a screwed-up computer, starting with an FDISK and ending with restoring the user’s desktop shortcuts that are backed up on the server every time they log out.
And yes, it does sound dirty, especially when written up on trouble tickets - “Hosed Jane on the 6th floor”
I work in markets and the comment “it looks like a shorts squeeze” invariably gets the response “…and no one likes to get squeezed in the shorts.”
I used to work for a company which made the legs for computer chips. One of my jobs was to enter the Tool Maintenance Reports, which recorded what was wrong with a die and what was done to fix it. Normally, this was a pretty boring job, but one morning it wasn’t. As I was mindlessly typing away, I came across the following fix for a problem: Increased stripper penetration. I lost it. I walked back to the Tool Maintenance Shop with the report in my hand and said, “You guys are having entirely too much fun back here!” as they tried to explain what they meant. I knew; I just couldn’t resist kidding them.
On the hobby level, I was at an SCA event last weekend which had a fencing match in which prices could be put on people’s heads. After a fellow killed me and took the piece of cloth which stood for my head, getting resurrected, and killing him and taking his head, I couldn’t resist kidding him about giving him head and getting it back! 
CJ
(formerly cjhoworth)
I work in the Irish civil service. We inform elected representatives of the availability of documents by putting them on the order paper of parliament. In formal speak, the document is “laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas”. Sometimes documents are informally referred to by the name of their authors. I’m looking forward to manwithaplan being laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas - there’ll be no dozing off on the benches that day;).