>>.....she pointed me to an online file that explained the meaning of all the common TLAs the company
>> used.
>>
...I have in front of me a 1990 document entitled "XXX* Jargon and General Computing Dictionary - Tenth Edition"
(* XXX; a big blue IT company)
Patently, much research and effort has/had gone into this, as it runs to 65 pages of close type.
Whilst it has a wealth of useful information, it often strays to the humorous.
So, whilst it expands on IPL as Initial Program Load, with some additional detail, it then follows up with IPR - In Plant Retiree ("Someone who has stopped doing any visible work, but has not done anything wrong, so cannot be fired".)
Or BAD adj. of a program: Broken As Designed. Used to Describe a program whose design, rather than implementation, is flawed. This term originated (and is mostly used) outside XXX, often in reaction to an XXX "Working As Designed" APAR response.
Pages and pages of gems that will be well recognised by anyone who has worked for or with a large blue IT company.
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