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TPS Report

A burdensome report that Peter must produce in the movie "Office Space."

TPS Report

by Pete Z. on Nov 08, 2007 22:49:44

To repetitively be asked for something by different people all with the same organization to the point of making you nauseous. Made famous by the movie Office Space.

Example:
Man, these idiots up there at the division staff are TPS Reporting the hell out of me! Six of them have all called in the last hour asking for that brief I put together last night.

tps report

by Bernie Klinder on Jul 15, 2005 05:28:22

In software development, a TPS Report is a quality assurance document that stands for "Testing Procedure Specification". This report is part of the IEEE 829 standards.

However, in the modern cubicle culture, TPS is an acronym meaning "Totally Pointless Stuff", which was made famous in the movie Office Space. TPS Reports are meaningless pieces of documentation that must be filled out but that nobody reads.

As an inside joke, many cubicle workers have duped their managers into renaming their routine status reports as "TPS reports" under the guise of other acroyms such as "Time and Productivity Status"

Example:
Our weekly TPS reports were filled with context-free grammer

tps reports

by BoB on Dec 23, 2003 18:03:33

Most commonly known to the average worker as a Totally Pointless Stuff Report, management views these as

Example:
Sending a list of completed goals to your management because they are too lazy to read a standard status report to get updates.

tps reports

by Anonymous on Sep 09, 2003 02:08:04

We use them at work, Used to be called
Project Reports. I managed to get the
report retitled on the form as
Total Project Summary Report, now referred to as TPS reports, giggles from us, blank stares from them.

Example:

tps reports

by Joe on Feb 21, 2004 05:59:49

Pointless busy-work assigned to you by your boss, often a list of completed goals.

Example:
Reffered to in the movie "Office Space", when Peter Gibbons's boss lectures him on the 'proper way to file TPS reports'.

tps reports

by Michael Bolton on Apr 04, 2003 03:31:02

The shit your boss makes you do.

Example:
BOSS: "Mya, Did you get the memo? We're now using the new cover on all TPS Reports. If you could just do that, that would be great. Thanks."

tps reports

by Mike Frost on Jan 01, 2004 01:36:01

Transaction Processing Schedules >
I work for UPS in Carolina, we use these everyday. They summarize client management interaction with the tmh machines. We have to fax them off to the head office every hour, and if there is no cover sheet we get the tps stamp and stamp it on our adf. fyi - 2 years ago they found this guy in inventory dead > appartently a stack of tps reports collapsed on him trapping him for days. He tried to chew throough the reports, but the ink on the reports were toxic.

Example:
"did you hear about the guy that died from the tps reports."

TPS report

by Austin James on Apr 07, 2004 06:25:23

You must remember to have the new cover sheet for these reports, otherwise Bill and everyone else in the office will annoy you.

Example:
You apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS reports.

tps reports

by Sputnik on Sep 09, 2004 17:17:11

Timeslot Propagation Statistics (TPS) reports - how you account to your boss for what you've been doing all day.

Example:
For lawyers it is the same as so-called "billable hours".

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