You’ll thank us for that at your next pub quiz.īetter still! SPAM doesn’t just refer to your junk mail. AM stands for Ante Meridiem, the Latin for before noon.Įven better, every time you send your colleague another cat GIF, I bet you don’t question what GIF actually stands for. Interesting.Įvery time you tell the time, for instance, you’re using an acronym. Wanna get more technical? In film you have your DOP, Director of Photography, or the CO, the Camera Operator. Similarly, what does MD stand for? Managing Director. Acronym jobs, for example, are used all the time. You probably use them quite often without even realising. It sure is a mouthful, so you can see why acronyms can be useful.Īcronyms are a simple way of expressing an idea or instruction. They’re more like short and snappy codes to speed up our communication.Ī great example you may have heard of is NASA, which stands for The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. What is an acronym?Īn acronym is a word formed as an abbreviation from the initial letters of several words. But what happens when shortcuts become so… well, short, that they take longer to figure out than before? Here’s a breakdown of some workplace acronyms.
We all love a good workplace hack to speed things up.
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