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[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I got laid off right as I was having surgery last year, so I went to a few job interviews in a panic, on painkillers. At one point they were like "What do you think about XYZ" and whatever the acronym was, I had never even heard it. So I just looked around and said, "Acronyms, eh?" and laughed. And everyone else laughed, except one guy who realized I was bluffing, and that got super awkward real quick. But for a second, we all really connected over how fucking stupid it was. (MSP job for which I am grateful not to have)

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

MSP = Microsoft Paint

for those who were also wondering.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport actually

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Minimal Stupid Product achtually.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Massively Stupid Plan, which applies to most of them.

Or it could be: Managed service provider.

Generally a shitty vendor that hates the customer and vice versa

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For anyone who doesn't know, MSP stands for Managed Service Provider, which is basically an independent contractor IT company that stands in for businesses' internal IT department if they're not big enough (or can't be bothered) to have their own.

Next time they reference XYZ and acronym, say "Fun Fact, that's technically not an acronym. An acronym is when the letters spell something like NASA or PIN. when you say the letters it's called initialism."