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[semperfiona]

Silliness from work:

We have a customer called Plumas-Sierra. Every time I see the name, I keep thinking "Fruma Sarah!"

This last year a group has been created within our company called the SEWG (Service Excellence Working Group). It is simply not possible not to call it "sewage."

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[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I've probably told you this story before, but I worked for a company who named the clients in their database by the first three letters of the client company's name and the first three letters of the city said client was in.

This lasted until one of our sales reps discovered that he was repping us to ASS-MAN and ASS-BOI.

[jilly-bear.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of funny customer names:

Sangre de Cristo - I just want to call them Sangria and Crisco
Ouachita - pronounced "Wah cha tah" but everyone around here calls it
"Wah Kee Tu"
Flathead - nough said!
Kootenai - "Koo Ten eye" - just looks googy!

[gasslight.livejournal.com]

I have an insured named Mona Maroney. So of course, I must always sing "Bony Maroney" whenever I see anything to do with her. All day.

I've got another whose last name is "Gogolak". Which means I do a whole little cheerleader thing, "Go-Go-Lak, Go-Go-Lak, BoomBoomBoom!

Do you have to do the sort of shrieky Fruma Sarah thing? I would. :)

[semperfiona]

Do you have to do the sort of shrieky Fruma Sarah thing? I would. :)

Oh, absoLUTEly!

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

Before Conner was born I worked at The Tennessean. While I was there they launched a new weekly wrap section (wraps around the rest of the paper) for Davidson County called the Davidson A.M. You can probably guess what it got called a lot. It was always amusing to hear various ad sales reps, ad builders, paginators, etc wandering around muttering about the "DAM section."

[simonepdx.livejournal.com]

That seems a highly appropriate acronym for a Service Excellence Working Group... the group that, rather than being excellent, works on figuring out what excellence would be. The better to stamp it out, I suppose ;-)

[dragonflylover.livejournal.com]

a customer from a company that I used to work at was named "Peter Wacker" and then there was also Nacho, Sr. and Nacho, Jr. Those names have stuck with me some almost twenty years later :)

Acronyms

[bzero]

heh. Reminds me of how excited kendokamel was to get her first copy of the Official Meeting Facilities Guide -- OMFG!

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[scottak.livejournal.com]

I really must find this magazine.

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[scottak.livejournal.com]

Even better - their website is OMFG.com!!!

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[scottak.livejournal.com]

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[bzero]

*grin* Just go to omfg.com... they probably have a link. *chuckle*

[cunningminx.livejournal.com]

OMG, I LOVE your icon!! ROFL!