Funny occupational terms...

[Dookus]

I've heard lots of funny terms and phrases used by people in certain professions. Hospitals have some funny ones.

My favorite, though, is a term used by Flight Attendants. "Crop-dusting" refers to passing gas while walking up the aisle.

Who's got others?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. when i was a helpdesk tech

we would always log RTFM next to idiotic callers' call descriptions. It meant "Read the Fuckin Manual".

[carols]

9. That's my favorite too!

I wanted to have it emblazoned on a T-shirt for my whole team!
Carol

[unblock]

13. one of my favorites, but the explanation....

when someone asked 'what's rtfm mean?'

i always answered 'read the manual'.

the followup 'but what's the f stand ... ohhh' was priceless!


for real idiots, the term is rtfma. then it's REALLY fun when they try to figure out what the a is for :evilgrin:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

25. ahhaha

i like that one, putting an a on the end! i shoulda done that! then again, some of those callers boy - whew, you could write an entire RTFMAYSSOBMF on they ass.

[PsN2Wind]

16. The grunts in Viet Nam

referred to support personnel as REMFs, which stood for Rear Echelon and the MF I'm sure you can figure out yourself.

[ldoolin]

18. here's another one

"IHTFP", means I Hate This Place.

[leftofthedial]

19. what's the "f" sta . . .

oooohhhhhhhhhhh. I get it!

[kdmorris]

20. We also use

Bad user on device..

:bounce: :bounce:

[dolo amber]

2. I know this guy

who used to work for a company that was responsible for removing and cleaning port-a-potties...they called themselves "honeydippers". :D

[never cry wolf]

3. When I worked construction

they were called shit suckers. And the truck that came around to the job site selling coffee snack and sandwiches and such was the roach coach.

[kixot]

4. ID-10T errors are common in my line of work.

Whenever it's an IDIOT on the line it's an ID-10T error.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Hypochondriacs are often called "crocks."

When a hospital-worker friend of mine suspected hypochondria in a patient, he would clue the staff around him by suggesting a Blood Porcelain Test.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. BTW, Dook, anybody ever tell you

ya got a real anal fixation?

[Dookus]

29. oh

kiss my ass....

:)

[maveric]

7. Those who collect cans from dumpsters are "Aluminum Miners".

[ldoolin]

8. Re: Funny occupational terms

Back when I worked in wildland fire we had some good ones:
CDF (California Department of Forestry) = "Can't Dig Fireline". Also "Coffee, Donuts, and Fun"
DNR (MN Department of Natural Resources) = "Do Nothing Right"
"Fish & Feathers" is the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

[DemoTex]

10. Crop-Dusting

First time I ever heard that term was from a beautiful, senior African-American flight attendant. She is flying a trip with a good friend of mine right now - tonight - in fact. He just called from Philly.

Crop-dusting is, indeed, farting by the F/As. Farting is a natural reaction of the body being raised in altitude. As the outside pressure decreases, with altitude, the inside pressure looks for an escape. In other words, EVERYBODY is farting on a high-flying jet.

F/As are cool and smart. They will fuck you over in a second. My favorite is a guy F/A in DC (a good friend of mine) who goes from row-to-row with a plastic trash bag. His line is:

"Sir? You're trash. You're wife's trash. Your kid's trash."

He is the same guy who, near the end of the boarding process, always pages the Griswalds. "Will Clark Griswald please ring his call-bell."

[PsN2Wind]

14. Natural reaction to altitude

Why our aircrews referred to exposure suits as "poopy suits". The suits had the ability to contain all that gas and vent it from the collar.

[Nay]

11. I always liked the term for those firejumper's tents that they use

if they are overrun by a fast-moving fire in the woods -- they call the tents "shake 'n' bakes." So macabre.

[DemoTex]

12. In the military "Shake-N-Bakes" were the ....

... instant NCOs.

[unblock]

15. in know a vice-president of erections

he's in the construction business, in charge of work on tall buidings....

[aQuArius]

17. Tech Ass.

It says so all over my file, LOL!

[Dogmudgeon]

21. Programmers without PhDs

Code Jockeys.

--bkl

[Superfly]

22. A bunch from the Army...

I am in the Field Artillery,

I've been called everything, including:
- Muzzle Monkey
- Gun Bunny
- Cannon Cocker
- Rocket Jockey

We called the Infantry soldier a "Bullet Launcher/Bullet Stopper"

There are literally hundreds of these terms...

[SOteric]

23. Firefighters refer to the local Haz Mat's crew as Mop-N-Glow.

[DS1]

24. 12 O'clock flasher

Non-technical ass

[BritishHuman]

26. One of the fault resolutions we use...

is PEBKAC.

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.

I understand the call centre people speak of "a fault between the headphones".

[yorgatron]

27. "loose nut behind the wheel"

from auto repair.

[alwynsw]

28. There are hookers in the aluminum industry

They drive forklifts with hooks attached to lift and move aluminum ingots. TRUE!

[TheMightyFavog]

30. Not exactly an occupational term...

But we have a specail terms used by people who play in the world's largest trivia constest.

Slamming is where a team keeps calling in bullshit, obviously incorrect answers until the last possible second in order to tie up the phone banks so that fewer teams can correctly answer the question. (Questions that fewer teams answer correctly are worth more points) It was a fairly common practice up until 1990, when the contest moved into a one call per team per question format at the request of the City of Stevens Point, Portage County Emergency Government, and the phone companies. However, starting with the 2000 contest, special "retro hours" were established where the old unlimited calls per team rules are temporarily put back into effect for an hour or two usually during the wee hours of the morning.

"Runners" are people who are sent to do the "Running Questions" on Saturday and Sunday Mornings, which involve walking to various places in Downtown Stevens Point and answering questions. The term "Runner is also used for people taksed with going on resupply runs to the store for more soda, coffee, food, beer, etc.

A "hot run" is three or four consecutive hours where a team has accumulated a lot of points.

A "C-Breaker" is a someone who pulls an answer out of thin air that is worth over 100 points (which is quite a bit).

The "Net runner" is a person who is usually a fast, accurate typist who has very good search engine skills tasked with searching the internet for answers.

[Lostmessage]

31. PDQ

Bring me a scotch and water PDQ which stands for pretty damn quick.

[Gore1FL]

32. Railroading language is interesting:

http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/rrtalk/

just think of the sentences you can make with:

Hot Box

Trim

Hump

Go "in the Hole"

When I hired-out in work orders a little over a decade ago, A conductor called me and said "The hoghead killed the horses because we were about to die". That was stunning. Translation: The Engineer idled the units and left the train because their hour of service were about to expire.