to think somebody is having a larf (NHS related)

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I attended a meeting on behalf of my boss yesterday & there was an overuse of acronyms (as is the way in the NHS) but I had to stifle my giggles when the general manager spoke about meeting with:

OMG (operational managers group)

and a computer initiative

BDSM (basic data sharing module)

surely someone has knowingly coined these acronyms & is laughing at the managers who are using them?? Or could it be weird co-incidence?! FWIW there were about 25 people at the meeting & no one appeared to raise an eyebrow

I used to work in the NHS. The trust I worked for got as far as having signs made for the new male urology ward before anyone spotted that the birds theme had possibly come a bit of a cropper. The name they had chosen for the new male urology ward was...Peacock

My team got to vote on our new name and we chose one that had the initials RAT. We embraced this and themed our party around it. Senior management vetoed the name cause it gave the wrong impression.

Had to talk a Belgian boss out of calling the Query Implementation Module the quim [snigger]

It's always claimed that when Newcastle Polytechnic was becoming a university the branding exercise to rename it "City University of Newcastle on Tyne" got as far as sketching logos before someone realised that cunt.ac.uk (or uk.ac.cunt, this being The Dark Ages before UK universities were properly hooked to t'Internet) was Probably A Bad Idea.

Personally I doubt it. But I'd love it to be true. University of Northumbria at Newcastle is much less fun.

The company I work for recently rebranded its quarterly meetings to CUM, company update meeting. Yep.

I was on a SLAG Nhs working group once.

The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society.

C.L.I.T.O.R.I.S
''Red Dwarf''

Not 'RL' i know, but always makes me

Sexual Health Action Group form following function beautifully.

I expect that's why we have the Police Service of Northern Ireland and not NI Police Service

No-one has clocked that our short term follow up clinic probably shouldn't be referred to as STFU!

A nurse I work with was a coach for a netball team at a city university. They went 'on tour' and had sweatshirts made up with their names etc on. The girl that ordered the sweaters didnt realise until it was too late that by using an acronym to save space on the sweaters she was actually creating larger issues for the group.

City University Netball Team.

C.u.n.t.

Trust dh works for didn't see the pitfalls of colour coding the bays in the ward "red" and "green"... Imagine old Doris getting moved from the green bay to the red! She'd be thinking she was checking out!!

And the further irony that they didn't have colour printers so when printing out ward maps all came out speckled grey

The others at the meeting are obviously proper grown ups, unlike you OP!

friday16 I went to Northumbria, I would have loved to have said I went to C.U.N.T

Croydon University Nhs Trust, was a recent new one...

BDSM - sounds like something that should be done behind closed doors

my hometown had a college called SCAT, Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology

We had something made at work, called PISSFLAPS

Can't remember what it was for, it was changed to P&P in the end.

OMG Pobble!

Years ago at work there was a funding programme called the Community Related Assets Package - I still believe this was done deliberately

I was in the RAF in ma yoof. Never forget the refurbishment of the gym.... They meant to produce a sign for the physical education officer's office. The PEdO.
Except they did the whole thing in capitals... PEDO Office.

We've had OMG at my work too. Deliberately.

Many years ago, Plymouth Poly (as it was) was looking to rebrand and having cast its eyes around decided the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) seemed a good name to copy until someone realised it would be UPIST which having spent 3 years there would have been very very aptly named