What is your least favourite acronym?
What is your least favourite acronym?
Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.
Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.
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obscure corporate jargon like KPIs (key performance indicators), KRIs (key risk indicators) which, after having thrown them at me during an interview for a college intern position, made the interviewer wonder why i got so flustered. i would hesitate to throw any acronyms around in any interview, let alone for a college student.
by the way, i got the internship. the acronyms weren't even used in my position.
I had an interview for an internship at an engineering company. They sort of forgot they were interviewing for an internship, or they unconsciously framed it as a job interview.
At some point they were like “Well besides a fascination with transportation and an ability to learn quickly, what would you actually bring the team?”
And I said “Not much. I’m a college sophomore”
They laughed and I got the internship. Great company.