{"id":6476,"date":"2025-05-19T20:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2025-05-19T20:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:18:34","slug":"we-will-all-stop-using-acronyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/05\/19\/we-will-all-stop-using-acronyms\/","title":{"rendered":"We Will All Stop Using Acronyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friday afternoon: Another email pinged through from the boss, full of acronyms and bullet points. Bullet points always made Stella want to shoot herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWTF,\u201d Stella replied. \u201cThis is CRAP. CBA, TBH.\u201d She went home.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Monday morning: \u201cStella. My office. Now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, of course I mean Wednesday\/Thursday\/Friday,\u201d Stella explained. \u201cThere\u2019s to be a Completion Report After Production. Your IRK suggestion Can Be Arranged. Your third request, the prioritization protocol presentation, I\u2019ve marked To Be Handled.\u201d She drew a long breath.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Another email pinged through as Stella returned to her desk: \u201cMoving forward we will all stop using acronyms\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stella smiled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/fionamjones.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fiona M Jones<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday afternoon: Another email pinged through from the boss, full of acronyms and bullet points. Bullet points always made Stella want to shoot herself. \u201cWTF,\u201d Stella replied. \u201cThis is CRAP. CBA, TBH.\u201d She went home. *** Monday morning: \u201cStella. My office. Now.\u201d *** \u201cWell, of course I mean Wednesday\/Thursday\/Friday,\u201d Stella explained. \u201cThere\u2019s to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13338,2666,936,13339,2265,12164,13337,11144,41,134,186,13342,13341,2583,13340,7214,1821],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-acronyms","tag-afternoon","tag-boss","tag-bullet-points","tag-desk","tag-email","tag-fiona-m-jones","tag-friday","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-office","tag-presentation","tag-production","tag-protocol","tag-report","tag-request","tag-smile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6477,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/6477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}