Why “Office Acronyms”?

I started working a corporate job in 2016, on the first day I heard about 20 acronyms.  It was like they had their own language.  My team’s name was an acronym.  The teams my team worked with had acronyms.  My company has an acronym dictionary (that no one uses but it does exist).  As the years pass and I continue to work my corporate job, I now know and use the acronyms relevant to my current team.  Hey, I sometimes collaborate in the creation and adoption of these acronyms.  How many times can I say acronyms?

Every single person I’ve trained has asked me about the acronyms.  Every new person asks what each acronym means.  Our acronyms have so many letters, we don’t even remember what the letters stand for.  I have been part of teams that try to solve this problem by starting a list of our specific team’s acronyms knowing that our company maintains one.  I know people that have their own inventory of acronyms.

When you start your new role acronyms are hard to remember.  After years of hearing them, they become second nature, part of your office culture.  Whatever the heck office culture is, it’s part of it.  People stop updating that acronym inventory and caring about them.  Hence why no one cares about the company wide acronym dictionary. We know what they mean and that’s what matters, right?

So, as I was driving to work and came up with the name “Office Acronyms”.  At first everything about office acronyms seems chaotic, unorganized, and nonsensical but after a while things tend to settle down and somehow make sense. That’s how I feel right now and have felt in the past.  I also have a feeling that’s how these posts will feel.  How I feel about these posts. Chaos and then calm.

Now for the word Office.  Obviously, my example comes from working at an office so that makes sense.  But there is more to that.  I want to include some office experiences as posts.  Mostly to write about my feelings and how I deal with them.  For those who work in an office environment or those who have watched The Office.  If you know, you know.  I want to release those office emotions from my brain click on the publish button and forget anything and everything I wrote.