Posted: 6/30/2011 10:46:00 AM EDT
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Since when do grown men communicate like teenage girls? Especially annoying coming from superiors almost twice my age. If you're too lazy to write thanks, don't fucking bother.
That is all. 
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Here's another: 'v/r', abbreviated form of very respectfully. Not very fucking respectful if you're not going to make the minimal effort to write it properly. Since you asked "since when", I'll go ahead and say "since a long time". When I wrote my thesis I became intimately familiar with the written correspondence of the higher ups in a particular company during the second decade of the 20th century. Almost every letter closed with some abbreviation like "v/r", or "y'r most obdnt. svt", etc. |
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Here's another: 'v/r', abbreviated form of very respectfully. Not very fucking respectful if you're not going to make the minimal effort to write it properly. Since you asked "since when", I'll go ahead and say "since a long time". When I wrote my thesis I became intimately familiar with the written correspondence of the higher ups in a particular company during the second decade of the 20th century. Almost every letter closed with some abbreviation like "v/r", or "y'r most obdnt. svt", etc. Cool bit of info. |
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If you want to share a beer over your tears I can give you the name of teh EMS weenie I rebutted over our FD's use of "UOA" in reports.
He began his "explanation" with how it wasn't on the list of "accepted" acronyms. 
I rebutted him asking how things became "accepted" in most languages, except by common useage. He replied that because the hospital didn't use it it wasn't recognized, and continued use could open us to liability in court. I commented that if we started woring in the hospital we'd be happy to comply with their acronyms, but if the RN's ever started working prehospital they'd better learn what UOA stood for.I asked the guys around the room what UOA stood for. Without anyone missing a beat everyone replied "upon our arrival". Pointing out that, as explained to us in class many years earlier, we could get sued for anything, including saving the patient's life, the only concern with our reports from a structural standpoint was being able to explain what was contained within them. As long as we could intrepret the contents of the report for any future actions then we could write in Swahili for all it mattered, as long as we could interpret it for the court and properly passed along information necessary for continuity of patient care.. 
He didn't care for me much anyway. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Here's another: 'v/r', abbreviated form of very respectfully. Not very fucking respectful if you're not going to make the minimal effort to write it properly. Since you asked "since when", I'll go ahead and say "since a long time". When I wrote my thesis I became intimately familiar with the written correspondence of the higher ups in a particular company during the second decade of the 20th century. Almost every letter closed with some abbreviation like "v/r", or "y'r most obdnt. svt", etc. "&c" was a common 19th century abbreviation for "etc." which is a modern abbreviation for "et cetera," which is Latin for "fuck it, I'm not writing all that." This sort of thing has been around a lot longer than you'd think, and it's one of the side effects of having a living language. |
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If you want to share a beer over your tears I can give you the name of teh EMS weenie I rebutted over our FD's use of "UOA" in reports. He began his "explanation" with how it wasn't on the list of "accepted" acronyms.
I rebutted him asking how things became "accepted" in most languages, except by common useage. He replied that because the hospital didn't use it it wasn't recognized, and continued use could open us to liability in court. I commented that if we started woring in the hospital we'd be happy to comply with their acronyms, but if the RN's ever started working prehospital they'd better learn what UOA stood for.I asked the guys around the room what UOA stood for. Without anyone missing a beat everyone replied "upon our arrival". Pointing out that, as explained to us in class many years earlier, we could get sued for anything, including saving the patient's life, the only concern with our reports from a structural standpoint was being able to explain what was contained within them. As long as we could intrepret the contents of the report for any future actions then we could write in Swahili for all it mattered, as long as we could interpret it for the court and properly passed along information necessary for continuity of patient care..
He didn't care for me much anyway. There's one in every crowd. |
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Here's another: 'v/r', abbreviated form of very respectfully. Not very fucking respectful if you're not going to make the minimal effort to write it properly. Since you asked "since when", I'll go ahead and say "since a long time". When I wrote my thesis I became intimately familiar with the written correspondence of the higher ups in a particular company during the second decade of the 20th century. Almost every letter closed with some abbreviation like "v/r", or "y'r most obdnt. svt", etc. "&c" was a common 19th century abbreviation for "etc." which is a modern abbreviation for "et cetera," which is Latin for "fuck it, I'm not writing all that." This sort of thing has been around a lot longer than you'd think, and it's one of the side effects of having a living language. I LOL'd... |