So at $DAYJOB, the latest management fad comes through, and it is decreed that we are all to attend some courses on $MGMT_FAD.  But not to worry, the state of Massachusetts is going to be footing part of the bill, though a program called the Workforce Training Fund.  I have thus been receiving regular messages concerning the WTF schedule, WTF classes, WTF activities, and so on.  There's even a WTF coordinator.

The WTF home page (the jokes just write themselves):

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=dlwdtopic&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Employers&L2=Workforce+Training+Fund+(WTF)&sid=Edwd

 So.. have you received your WTF award yet?

Can I nominate a product name?

NFuse (Citrix's web interface, name now dropped but lives on in URLs) sounds OK when pronounced "enfuse" but spell it out to a user and they'd say "n - f - use?"

 Though not an acronym, I always liked the Borland database name 'Paradox' it makes no sense as a product name at all.

Why can't I get my data out of this thing? We paid a fortune for it!

Dunno, it's a Paradox

 

 

 

 

milmin:

Though not an acronym, I always liked the Borland database name 'Paradox' it makes no sense as a product name at all.

Why can't I get my data out of this thing? We paid a fortune for it!

Dunno, it's a Paradox

Wow, I guess that's too paradox for me too understand...

Good to know that HITG is a WTF program though. Coulnd't have told before.

# The Brillant Paula Bean
# Author::    derula
# Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Paula Bean
# License::   Originally distributed under a
#             proprietary license by Paula Bean.
#             Ruby port by derula published
#             under the same terms as Ruby's.

# This module provides a method to return the
# brillance of Paula Bean. This can be achieved
# by calling the module method get_paula.
module Paula_Bean

  # This constant stores the essence of Paula
  # Bean's brillance. This is a private
  # constant, so you MAY NOT use
  # Paula_Bean::PAULA to access it! Please use
  # the get_paula method instead.
  PAULA = "Brillant"

  # Returns Paula Bean's brillance.
  def self.get_paula
    return PAULA
  end
end

 Could be worse... you might have been sent to (S)pecial (H)igh (I)ntensity (T)raining.

DragonHawk:

I have thus been receiving regular messages concerning the WTF schedule, WTF classes, WTF activities, and so on.  There's even a WTF coordinator.

The WTF home page (the jokes just write themselves)

 

Golden. 

 It seems that this acronym is fairly common.

Approved partners who help employers apply for WTF grants.

No wonder there are enough of them to keep this site busy!!!! 

 

Anyway, I hope they give out "WTF certified" badges.

RayS:

 

Anyway, I hope they give out "WTF certified" badges.

 

With free uppgrade kits to WTF Badge v2 

DragonHawk:

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DragonHawk wrote the following post at 02-08-2008 7:34 PM:

TRWTF is that he was able to post this before he joined.

apetrelli:

 It seems that this acronym is fairly common.

 

Sorry to be a pedant, but "WTF" isn't an acronym, it's an abbreviation (a TLA, in fact).  It would only be an acronym if you could pronounce it, perhaps something like "wotoff"?

 

It makes me sad when two different words, like acronym and abbreviation, come to mean the same thing - it's such a waste.  See also mad/angry, smart/clever, dumb/stupid, etc.  What word do Americans use when they want an adjective to describe someone who is incapable of speech?

My employers Performance Management System is called PMS.

Crispy Duck:

 What word do Americans use when they want an adjective to describe someone who is incapable of speech?

 

I believe that "mute" is the most common, though still plenty of "dumb."   Words have multiple meanings.  You should probably get over it.  Not that you're wrong about abbreviation/acronym.

Crispy Duck:

Sorry to be a pedant, but "WTF" isn't an acronym, it's an abbreviation (a TLA, in fact).

You're trolling, right?

You fail at pendantry. TLA = Three Letter Acronym. Not Three Letter Abbreviation. 

Acronym - a word formed by the initial letters of a phrase or title.

Abbreviation - A shortened form of a word.

WTF is clearly an acronym.  

 

Crispy Duck:

What word do Americans use when they want an adjective to describe someone who is incapable of speech?

What word do you use for incorrect pedantry?

Crispy Duck:

It would only be an acronym if you could pronounce it,

 

There's no widespread agreement on that.  (The Wikipedia article is a good example; no less than seven cited sources highlighting this disagreement.)  As there is no authoritative controlling standards body for the English language, it's impossible to call anything definitively correct or incorrect.  And if one goes by popular usage, an acronym is any initialism.

 If you're going to be pedantic, at least be informed. ;-)

 

boomzilla:

TRWTF is that he was able to post this before he joined.

 

Interesting.  When *I* see the message index, I see me joining on 02-08-2008.  I'm guessing this has to do with some combination of time zone differences between you, me, and the server, and/or time zone localization being inconsistently applied.

  

boomzilla:

DragonHawk:

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DragonHawk wrote the following post at 02-08-2008 7:34 PM:

TRWTF is that he was able to post this before he joined.

Looks like it might be applying the timezone setting to the post dates, but not the date joined. Or something. I see "Joined on 09/02/2008" and the post was posted at "09/02/2008 10:34 AM" (my timezone is GMT+10). Speaking of which, this forum doesn't have a daylight savings option, so the times are all one hour wrong for me unless I manually adjust the timezone to GMT+11 >_>

PJH:

 

Crispy Duck:

What word do Americans use when they want an adjective to describe someone who is incapable of speech?

What word do you use for incorrect pedantry?

 

dumb/stupid, I figure. 

Crispy Duck:

What word do Americans use when they want an adjective to describe someone who is incapable of speech?

Mute

GalacticCowboy:

Crispy Duck:

What word do Americans use when they want an adjective to describe someone who is incapable of speech?

Mute

 

The button I sometimes wish for on certain people. 

 I like the new transit system Seattle built, the South Lake Union Trolley. Yes, someone already went through the trouble of creating T-Shirts saying "Ride the S.L.U.T."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/332081_slut18.html 

 My first thought was that the OP had copied a state website onto his web server and added a dash of WTFs.  This is awesome!

Daniel15:

boomzilla:

TRWTF is that he was able to post this before he joined.

Looks like it might be applying the timezone setting to the post dates, but not the date joined. Or something. I see "Joined on 09/02/2008" and the post was posted at "09/02/2008 10:34 AM" (my timezone is GMT+10). Speaking of which, this forum doesn't have a daylight savings option, so the times are all one hour wrong for me unless I manually adjust the timezone to GMT+11 >_>