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[–] [email protected] 33 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

IT guy here, we suffer from a similar problem where everything is an acronym so it sounds like alphabet soup that if said as a word means sometimes you can't even quietly go look it up later. You either nod along knowing what it means or nod along not knowing what it means but having no chance to learn without outing yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

And then you have multiple identical abbreviations meaning different things or different things that are pronounced the same or multi billion dollar ompanies naming their product after existing words (like Microsoft Word or Office or Outlook...).

Mix in abbreviated customer names, names for servers and internal teams (no, not Microsoft Teams©) and everything is only an incomprehensible letter mumbo-jumbo.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

And you can't out yourself because, in many workplace cultures, the appearance of knowing is more important than actually knowing. :/