Trading Outlook & Sales Sheet.

But I will do it again anyway. A company MrsD used to work for had a Collections Unit National Trainer

I'm told by somebody that worked there that back in the early 90s when Newcastle Poly recieved University status it was going to be named the Central University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Apparently it got as far as brochures and signage and letterheads and logos before somebody spotted what could have been quite embarrassing. It very soon became University of Northumbria at Newcastle...

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....the old Commercial Union office in the Northern Territory had the same acronym issue which apparently ran live for a while.......

genuinely had a Customer Liaison Information Team.

Pretty hard to find though apparently.

Supposedly true that way back in BBC history, they had an engineering position called something like Engineer Inhouse Operations and someone created a post in charge of that one so it became E.!.E.I.O.

when I was a software engineer working in telecoms, we invented the Plessey Extended Networking Integrated System.

Come on, we were all uber-geeks in our twenties ...

Company holds a competition to name a cleaning product, someone suggests Best Universal Grit Grime and Effluent Reducer with the slogan if Daz won't whiten it and Omo won't brighten it BUGGER it. They decided not to go with it.
Somenone then suggests they should call it the Finest Universal Cleanser Known.

Dear colleague,

In [BLAH] we wish to ensure efforts displaying the right behaviours don’t go unnoticed. The award is a very successful initiative (see also the article in this month’s Newsletter), and now we would like to introduce ‘High Five’.
‘High Five’ is a simple, light and fun way of saying “Well done!” You are one of a small group we have selected in [Blah] to test the system to find out if this initiative finds traction and works for [Blah], so take a look and try it!
Sending a High Five to someone is easy – simply click on the link, fill in the fields, select the behaviour you would like to recognise someone for, add a motivating comment in the yellow hand and send. The person and their line manager will receive your High Five via email.
You can send a High Five for small and big demonstrations of the five behaviours e.g. someone asking a good question during a meeting, which leads to a more external focused discussion or someone delivering something with speed and simplicity. The key is that it’s informal, quick and peer-to-peer, but at the same time recognises someone for the behaviours.
High Five compliments the Award. It is about recognition and we feel it is not just something that line managers should do. Peer recognition can be very helpful and motivating. The Award is a more official reward process; High Five aims to be much more informal.
Just test it and use it for a while and ask others to use it. We want this to spread by itself. No big bang introduction.
We will send you an email in two-three weeks asking for your feedback on High Five. In the meantime, please use every opportunity to send a High Five and contribute to creating a recognition culture throughout [Blah].

Many years ago while passing time working at a music publishing company I was entitled to so many free records a month. I wrote out a list of Stones records which the admin girl had to get the catalogue details for and then order over the phone. After the order was placed she approached me and told me that she was NEVER ordering me another Stones record again. Excuse me, why not? Can't remember what was what but the catalogue details for either records or cassettes was a number prefaced by either COC or CUN. Those musicians, I tell you.

Work Analysis Network Kickoff meeting this afternoon.

I was briefly involved with the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England.