from the Department of Unfortunate Abbreviations

[julesjones]

Just catching up on my email from last week, and found this in the New Scientist job ad summary email:

Ass Development Specialist
Location: West Yorkshire, England
Salary: Negotiable
We are currently recruiting for a Assay Development Specialist for this diagnostic, West Yorkshire based organisation. Individuals appointed will join the busy research and development team, and will primarily involved in developing a range of new assays

Comments

[vatine]

Oh, assays. There I thought it was some sort of very tailored personal trainer job.

[flippac.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

The compiler I use most frequently has a module for Strictness Analysis. I'll let you guess how that's abbreviated for the module name?

[carl-allery.livejournal.com]

*avoids drenching keyboard* ... just! :)

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

Being a 5 year old at heart, I giggled. :)))

When I worked in the financial industry auto-fill/spell was my nemesis - It was constantly plopping in "asses" when I wanted "assets".