• overcast5348@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Your comment reminded me of this moment I had at an office lunch table:

      Someone from sales: I’ve been having a terrible day, the P-O-C at {client company} is being annoying yadda yadda…

      Someone from HR: glaring, and taking mental notes.

      Me, a dev: wondering how things could’ve gone wrong considering that we hadn’t even shipped anything for them.

      It took us all a moment to realize that "PoC " meant different things to each of us - Point of Contact, Person of Colour, and Proof of Concept. Somehow the salesperson could’ve been talking about any of those and it’d make, so none of us questioned ourselves first.

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        16 hours ago

        It’s even funnier with “point of sale” machines (ie. cash registers and/or payment terminals). We just sent the customer our newest and best POS! 😂👌