Acronyms are how are you sound professional!

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My brain losing more braincells as I try to understand:

[@michaelhu7331]

With my slow brain I need an entire list of acronyms whenever a meeting starts. Like just imagine a guy going "wait a sec" during a meeting as he checks the acronym list trying to answer haha.

[@TrickOrRetreat]

When i don't understand people, i just say speak clearly your mumbling. Works every time.

[@GoldenYXZ]

expect asap i don't know anything else they said. is everything actually a real word or are the some made up?

[@joetate87]

​@@GoldenYXZtechnically they're acronyms. So a series of words. Some of them are real, some are made up

[@lukask4498]

​@@GoldenYXZ pretty sure the one they gave Adam are made up. Sadly I knew about 70% of those acronyms. 😅

[@Vulcan_Voltaris]

Im actually amazed by the fact this series has been running for years and they still come up with funniest content😮

[@OldeCat]

Ikr, but this one is from an older skits that they've turned into shorts

[@Vulcan_Voltaris]

@@OldeCat yep

[@kxnshinz]

Well i mean..they did stop awhile ago,this series pretty much got rebooted

[@musho86]

They got boring sadly

[@sparkymist]

This one is actually years old now…

[@bushcraftbasics2036]

"I'd like to buy a vowel"

[@tahmidtarique6077]

😂😂😂

[@TheHerald615]

QWE had one

[@goldenowl819]

With the amount of paycuts he's been given, Adam can't afford to buy a vowel :(

[@bletwort2920]

Need vowels ASAP

[@scotte8315]

Ha

[@hrekkah1g]

ok. this is what I could find... KPIs: key performance indicators CTAs: calls to action EOD: end of day OOO: out of office PTO: paid time off UPL: unscheduled personal leave PC: pay cut B2B: business to business OPS: operations CMS: content management system CPC: cost per click PPC: pay per click ROS: return on sales SEO: search engine optimization UV: unique visitor SAAS: software as a service ASAP: as soon as possible EOP: end of production OTC: over the counter MOM: month over month TBA: to be announced CFO: chief financial officer EDS: enterprise data services EST: established NSOR: national s@x offender registry?? PQT: production qualification test Arvo: Australian slang for 'afternoon' FTG: finance theory group -or- food to go LWR: last workday rate SDO: service delivery objective PQY: pay what you want QWE: qualifying work experience

[@maxpowers9129]

The only one I could figure out was the pay cut.😂

[@fallenfossl]

ARVO also kiwi not just Aussie! I wonder what NSOR actually means in this context 🤔

[@jasonj3752]

SDO could also be Scheduled Day Off thats what my work place uses

[@Schwertfisch13]

HELL - High Exhaustion Labour Lifestyle

[@MortyTheReaper]

​@@fallenfossl I would guess National Sales office representative.

[@jake_from_statefarm7209]

Oh, actusl footage of inside your average meeting in public accounting 😂

[@hacksawhackmann]

This is what my first IT meeting felt like out of college. I got maybe one or two of the acronyms 😂

[@naraedhawigar12]

I'm majoring in Accounting, this is what I was thinking in the first place lmaoo 💀💀💀

[@neloangelo84]

I can confirm this. Throw in IT and clinical acronyms as well and thats my day.

[@faxmine]

​@@naraedhawigar12 same. I'm actually so afraid of this happening

[@user-hz6id1ov4m]

Poor Adam, he had that look, what fucking language are they speaking.😂😂

[@RedFail1-1]

That's the joke...

[@HariSeldon913]

Still, he should have responded, "OK".

[@malcolmrowe9003]

WFLATS?

[@imranroy4731]

666 likes. The devil approves! 😈

[@JossLun]

Alan and Ellie don't know either, they just say whatever bullshit comes to their mind

[@LadyBlackmoor]

I know enough of them to suspect they are all real, which is damn impressive

[@NoThisIsNotMe.]

The fact these are real acronyms is crazy

[@stormcardinal5856]

The only one I understood was QWE and I don't even know if I'm right, does it mean Quiet Work Environment?😂😂

[@JediSentinal]

That's the nuts part. Most of it was gibberish (they don't belong together) but I just had a business class and learned far to many of these. Already forgetting some of them because nobody uses them in the real work environment, only in business meetings.

[@parafitality2730]

As middle management, I can confirm these are in use.

[@Dariusz_1.618]

@@stormcardinal5856 I only understood ASAP

[@9308323]

​@@JediSentinal Nobody speaks like Rowan here (thankfully), but they do use it in real work environment. Most of these, anyway.

[@heikable]

The acronyms at my workplace were getting so much out of control that someone built a website in their spare time for looking up what they all mean. It's one of the most useful pages on our intranet.

[@testedTransgressor]

PTO - Paid Time Off UPL - UnPaid Leave PC - Pay Cut Rowan does a Rowan once again 😂

[@h14hc124]

The worst part is that most of that made sense to me

[@ReallyThatsWhatUchoose]

Please explain

[@Fyr365]

Yes please do because I might have understood one or terms, if that, but the rest completely flew over my head... 😅🙏

[@lokifrostpaw2976]

There's a comment explaining it on the original video I think

[@h14hc124]

@@ReallyThatsWhatUchoose We really need to go over our KPIs (Key Performance Index) and make sure we've got all of our CTAs (Call to Actions) by EOD (End of Day) . Actually Rowan, I haven't got the triple-O (Out Of Office ??) for my PTO (Paid Time Off) yet. I didn't approve your PTO (Paid Time Off), in fact that's going to be a UPL (Upper Payment Limit) with a PC (Professional Component ? not sure.. doesn't really make sense) - Ahh FFS... (you know this one)... We won't be able to perform B2B (Business to Business) OPS (operations) if the CMS (customer management system) isn't ready . Ah I'll get on top of that CMS and then check the CPC (cost per click) as well. What about PPC (Pay Per Click) .. ah yep, I'll check that as well as the ROS (Return on sales) and the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as well. Ah Ellie have you got the UV (no idea) stats for the SaaS (Software as a Service) - we need that ASAP (As Soon As Possible) by the end of EOP (End of Play ) . Yeah all good, Rowan, I've got the OTC (Order To Cash) MOM (Month on Month) TBA (To Be Advised), then the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) has asked me to get on the EDS (External Debt Statistics) in EST (US Eastern Standard Time) ASAP (as soon as possible). Cool, thanks Ellie. Now Adam, you've actually got an easy afternoon. Oh good. So we've got the NSOR (no idea) coming down the PQT (Production Qualification Test) this arvo (afternoon), I need you to be on the FTG (no idea) ASAP, then you can LWR (no idea) and take your SDO (no idea). Shouldn't be much of a PQY (no idea) because most of the people have a QWE (qualifying work experience) anyway

[@chocacao9874]

I got mabe half like kpi asap eod triple o seo cta but things like nso or lwr are a mystery

[@ChainxBlaze]

KPI: a Key performance indicator. Cta: Calls to action (what your employees gotta do to reach your kpi) Eod: end of day OOO: Out of Office Pto: Paid time off. UPL: Unpaid Leave PC: Paycut B2B: business to business Ops: Operations CMS: content management system CPC: Costs per Click PPC: Pay per Click ROS: Return on Sales SEO: Search engine optimization UV: Unique Visitors SAAS: Software as a service ASAP: As soon as Possible EOP: End of Period OTC: Over the Counter MOM: month over month TBA: To be announced CFO: Chief Financial Officer EDS: Enterprise data services EST: Electronic Sell Through NSOR: ???? PQT: Production Qualification Test Arvo: afternoon FTG: Field Testing Group LWR: Lighting Web Runtime SDO: Software development outsourcing PQY: Production Quality QWE:Qualifying Work Experience

[@electricfall]

You are scaring me

[@Aimless6]

EOD - End of Decade

[@brycekenyon2384]

This is digital marketing. I knew far too many of these

[@reginlief1]

…is there a chance these are all real?

[@Deathworm-eg5lt]

Really? They’re real?

[@viewtifuljon8105]

I know a few. For example KPI is Key Performance Indicator. But I'm sure they might have started making some up at some point.

[@darkblaise7784]

@@reginlief1 KPI = Key Performance Indicators CTA = Call to Action EOD = End of Day OOO = Out of Office PTO = Paid Time Off UPL = Unpaid Leave PC = Pay Cut B2B = Business to Business OPS = Operations CMS = Content Management System CPC = Cost per Click PPC = Pay per Click ROS = Run of Site SEO = Senior Executive Officer UV = Unique Visiter SAAS = Software as a Service ASAP = as Soon as Possible EOP = End of Play OTC = Over the Counter MOM = Month over Month TBA = To be Announced CFO = Chief Financial Officer EDS = Electronic Data Systems EST = Established NSOP = Not Shown on Plan PQT = Product Qualification Team ARVO = Afternoon FTG = (something) Training Guide LWR = Either wrong acronym or made up SDO = Scheduled Day Off PQY = believe it is made up QWE = believe it is made up

[@AsianBM55]

CTA - Call to Action: text that gets your readers to engage in next step to buying product EOD - End of Day OOO - out of office maybe? Weird way to use it PTO - paid time off UPL - probably Unpaid Labor PC - ??? B2B - Business to Business OPS - I assume they mean Operations, never heard of OPS as an acronym CMS - Content Management System: front end for websites, think Wordpress/Squarespace. Basically a prebuilt website structure and you insert the contents, common for small to medium size businesses CPC - Cost Per Click: how much you’re paying in relation to getting a click on your ad, one of a few metrics marketing uses to track ad campaign success PPC - Pay Per Click: similar to CPC ROS - usually return on sales but probably means run of site here SEO - Search Engine Optimization (getting your site to top of google results) UV - no clue, maybe unique visitors? SaaS - Software as a Service (best to google it) EOP - same as EoD OTC - ??? MOM - month over month? TBA - to be announced CFO - chief financial officer EDS - ??? EST - Eastern Standard Time (east coast time zone for US) I have no idea what Rowan talks about afterwards

[@NorwegianQvirr]

Yip is short for "Yes, I'm Panicking!"

[@waffleboi_1]

I had the exact same expression as Adam the entire video😂

[@Quasimodo-mq8tw]

I have that expression at workplace meetings.

[@lukebarnsley6710]

Adams facial reaction is spot on... Except I'm more like "yep, whatever"

[@blueblazegaming3326]

That "Yip" was so small yet the pain of the struggle going on inside Adam was so loud 😂

[@colinstock325]

My only response to that twaddle would be WTF and IDGAF.

[@tnwhiskey68]

It's like being in the military.

[@jmackmcneill]

The trick for these meetings is to have a pen and paper so you can note down the acronyms, look at them thoughtfully, and then nod confidently and say something vaguely positive. Then you have a note of what to do and can ask someone nice later.

[@devilsdante]

The subtitles: we need that ASAP by the end of EOD. Something is not right here 😂

[@lifeisbutadreamsodreamon]

Probably a 4pm meeting 😅

[@user-yd4rv5tn8c]

I understood all of this. And I'm unemployed. The fuck

[@solosynapse]

Welcome to capitalist dystopia!

[@realbryanf]

​@@solosynapse *Corporate Dystopia

[@September2091]

I was expecting Adam to say “OK?” Lol

[@TheBonzol]

my new job is just like this, and I work in IT for a bank. Everything is acronyms and know one actually knows what the mean. I just started making up random ones and no one questioned me.

[@Jax_n-]

Adam when somebody says "OK" instead of "Okay"

[@CHARrrrrrrrr]

Every hospital

[@nodlimax]

The only good response would be "wtf?"

[@pixelrscore]

cry's internally in amazon leadership

[@spathi3309]

I hate self important people who dribble acronyms. It saves no time. Just use the whole words so everyone in the room can be on the same page. Good job Viva for capturing this perfectly!

[@superbananas7792]

Try working in Healthcare......there's so manyy.

[@solosynapse]

Yea, I've met cardiologists who basically speak only in random letters.

[@superbananas7792]

@solosynapse Well, yeah.....reading a heart trace is basically a different language, and there are SO MANY bloody rhythms.

[@Pangie12]

IKR, I work in healthcare too and it drives me bananas sometimes. Haha.

[@superbananas7792]

@@Pangie12 Until ya like in the know......and then you feel semi-special translating for patients.

[@websterri]

Well the thing is there are no set ones. Its an art not a science.@@superbananas7792

[@burnttoast-rp3fn]

So confusing most people will rewatch without realizing it.

[@unusuarioimportante]

I understood: KPI key performance indicators CFO Chief financial officer CEO Chief Executive Officer ROI Return Over investment ASAP As soon as possible. American companies really love acronyms for some reason

[@websterri]

*facepalm* Return ON investment. Also, this is not American and has nothing to do0 with America.

[@unusuarioimportante]

@@websterri facepalm American companies use acronyms far more than other countries

[@gutzthegamer6848]

PTO is paid time off

[@valerierussell6867]

Haha, it's like teaching IB ! (International baccalaureate) So many acronyms.....

[@CynderDragoneye]

I mean, its not that bad, I survived 13 years of IB

[@mimmain2673]

"I'm sorry sir but does it look like I build spaceships? I pack shelves sir....shelves...."

[@edvankemper2859]

Every time I go into a meeting in the army this is what I feel like I have 4 pages worth of acronyms written down and I have to skim through the pages almost every time lol

[@consume_vegetables]

ROWAN is just randomly throwing out abbreviations, and Alan just naturally plays along.

[@debanjanchakraborty9946]

I always carry a notebook in these meetings and write down every time any of these unknown acronyms come up, I ask my other colleagues later to catch up

[@hdanial1190]

Someone needs to re-write these subtitles with the actual meaning in brackets

[@mojtabaakbari9306]

Rowan was in season 2 of Spartacus, he died after 1 minute screen time 😂

[@TheTekknician]

ROFLMAOPIMPMWYSOF, Basically.

[@faremir]

I have seen this originally some time back.. i didn't understand most of it. Now i do... kill me please.

[@songofrest]

I'm down with OPP.

[@NarwahlGaming]

Yeah. You know me.

[@Lynwood_Jackson]

I worked at a company once that had a dictionary of all of their approved acronyms. Each department had their own role specific acronyms on top of that and then some people just made up acronyms out of nothing. Sometimes you would call a person just to try to figure out what their acronyms meant. Usually they wouldn't know either.

[@roberthungerford9019]

When all our town hall meetings are taken over by the EPIC team. Happens every time and we always question our attendance.

[@mrtalos]

I've seen a meeting like this where halfway through a new manager went "can I just stop you there for a moment. I'd either like you to give me a list to what all the acronyms mean, or stop using them" The a-hole brought in a list.

[@mangofrugtmos]

I am autistic and I really hate acronyms, because my brain tells me every f**king posible outcome of those letters!!! It's like a landslide of words!

[@Joe-es5ov]

Reminds be of joining a destiny 2 raids that says “Know what to do” and you have no idea what to do🤣

[@AshuraRegres]

1000%

[@heyviper1238]

This is what I imagine inter flight and controller comms sound like to anyone outside the aviation community lol.

[@greyngreyer5]

This is what Hungarian sounds like to non-Hungarians

[@supercoolmaniajon265]

More spelling than Old McDonald had a Farm

[@SwornReaper]

I only know FAFO.

[@stormywingz7591]

"In fact, there's gonna be a UPL with PC " "ahh for f*ck s..."

[@parasitez3053]

Ohh, this is one fresh video.

[@sarcastichyena2456]

This feels like trying to find an answer on a fandom subreddit...

[@bartsanders1553]

Unfun fact: They're not making these acronyms up. They're real.

[@QuantenMagier]

So Adam has the easy task to take his SDO (Scheduled Day Off) at the LWR (Light-Water Reactor). Sounds fun!🧑🏻‍🔬

[@DarkSolidity]

PTO - Paid Time Off UPL - Unpaid Leave

[@hadriangonzalez607]

In education as a teacher and I was surprised by the sheer amount of acronyms in this field as well. CFA, DBQs, LER, MCQ, T2Ts, SDQ, etcs..

[@silversurfer8818]

He should have responded with CBA and just walked out of there

[@DestruoTheWithered]

What does CBA mean?

[@hariodinio]

Can't be arsed

[@DestruoTheWithered]

@@hariodinio okay then.

[@starshieldnightpone5636]

Chess Battle Advanced

[@BeeBird]

@@DestruoTheWithered Crate Before Attack

[@RubyW4RD3N]

"C...Could you explain those Acronyms y-you're using?"

[@thijsvandrenth5947]

I swear, sometimes I think we are de-evolving the way we communicate with one another. I thought we had a perfectly good amount of actual words to express ourselves, but maybe I am wrong.

[@michaelfoye1135]

Ah yes, jargonese the language of the managmentarian people.

[@EmerialynCodeVenice]

I showed this to my Mom, who is a Loan Officer Manager, and she says she understood, so I feel even more foolish for barely understanding 1 out of 10 terms... 😆

[@user-fw9uc7fz2q]

YUP= Yes Understood Perfectly

[@garretreed9709]

How I write my job history to ensure I got all the keywords on my resume

[@clairewilliams9416]

While there are a lot of acronyms here I once worked for a NICU and the amount of acronyms they use would put Rowan to shame.

[@JaredGauthier]

The company I work for also loves it's acronyms.

[@SaltyMon]

I feel like shit for understanding more than half of these acronyms.... have I become an office worker...

[@mdlkpprophecy6341]

Literally me on my first meeting with the team 😂

[@MEL0_YT]

Top 10 anime betrayals of all time

[@tanneroz5752]

I started my career in a company driven by acronyms to a limit that there was a dedicated internal search engine for acronyms. Back then, a senior colleague advised me to avoid the use of these acronyms. That was the best career advice I got.

[@ianbelletti6241]

"I'll get right on that after I finish the MNQOPs. I think I've got another 3 days."

[@renamix]

Oh god.. This was like my first Team Leader meeting.

[@shadowguarder2857]

Saying ASAP is literally slower than saying 'as soon as possible'

[@ZiggyGrok]

But "a-sap" is faster. I've never heard someone actually spell it out. Do they actually spell it out in NZ and elsewhere?

[@briancheng1743]

​@ZiggyGrok IDK bout other places in HK mostly ASAP instead of A SAP, but back home in Tdot we use A SAP

[@Tiger_Black]

I mean no, even if you pronounce asap by letter its still less syllables than saying as soon as possible

[@jager4208]

Exactly how a felt the first year of my job and now a year and a half in, there is still new acronyms i am hearing

[@ElPolloDiabloCH]

I'm a founding member of the WAAA, aka the workers association against abbreviations. We're open to new members.

[@WizardusMaximus]

My number 1 channel, really enjoying Ur vids and the DnD playlist

[@Poets04]

Civilian/private sector acronyms don't have anything on military ones lol. My favorite? COBLU: Cooperative OUTBOARD Logistic Upgrade! OUTBOARD itself being an acronym for: Organizational Unit Tactical Baseline Operational Area Radio Detection... Yes, the US Navy put an acronym in-flipping-side an acronym because reasons. Good times.

[@___TEMPEST___]

someone actually get me a complete version of acronyms, gpt4 failed and started hallucinating words 😅

[@arcaneminded]

KPI: Key Performance Indicators, EOD: End of Day, PTO: Paid time off, UPL: Unpaid leave, B2B: Back to back. CMS: Consumer? marketing services CPC: Cost per click, PPC: Pay per click ROS: return on sales SEO: Search engine optimisation SaaS: Software as a service EOP: End of process OTC: Over the counter MOM: Month on month TBA: To be announced CFO: Chief Finance Officer EDS: Electronic Data Systems EST: Eastern standard time Missed some but IDC CBF

[@jacob6885]

Love the slipped in "Ah FFF"

[@collectorbynature152]

This is workplace abuse for Adam! 😄

[@zamba136]

I was expecting the response to be "OK"

[@clairewilliams9416]

The fact that I m fairly sure everyone one of those is real blows my mind. I knew like 90% of those, but I’m not used to hearing them all at once. I’ll be OOO to EOD.

[@quinnycrownstudio2720]

Actually it's real scenario when you work some big company

[@roxert0]

The fact that I could understand every acronym just amazed me.

[@amspook]

Hey, good for you I'm still trying to understand 70% what's going on right there

[@Iambamtman1]

The fact i understood many of these even when unrelated is insane

[@HeinHtut-zq2fp]

Now,I am searching for every Acronym.

[@tmastersat]

Pto = power take off

[@sedianttheone4009]

Paid time off

[@psycologo121]

I hate how accurate this is to my job

[@sirhenk5910]

I hate how many acronyms there are for End Of Day

[@BadNessie]

This is even more funny watching this as a German, who had to look up what a GP was the first time I bumped into the acronym, as we have an actual speakable word for them. 😂

[@Frosensouls]

I hate my workplace acronyms, so important words they shortened down and only told a few people. And people have the nerves to get up set with me for not knowing them.

[@patrickbuick5459]

I have often thought this took conciseness over clarity way too far. The militaries are bad for acronnym issues as well.

[@kristofferlape]

This is actually very common in the military. There are acronyms for everything!

[@LoafOfDog]

Literally any staff meeting in the army ever

[@woodenmetal2977]

Reminds me of my first week on the ship in the navy. My department had a little huddle session to assign duties and the chief was throwing out all these acronyms that everyone else was just nodding along to while I was like "huh?"

[@miker953]

He should have said, "O.K."

[@jiyouvictorillo6810]

His face when he was bluffed by Ellie😂

[@mrsquid_]

i know some of these and that makes me scared that all of them are real