TPS reports
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"
tps reports
by BoB on Dec 23, 2003 18:03:33
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
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
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.
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.
TPS Report
by B-money on Apr 15, 2005 01:20:07
Example:
Uhhh...yeeahhh..I'm gonna need you to put a
cover memo on that TPS Report.
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.
TPS Reports
by Todd B. on Jan 18, 2005 21:06:49
This Place Sucks Report. The corporate america has been so
bogged down with status reports that
no work gets done because you spend all day giving your status to obnoxious product managers. Let them know how you feel in the next
TPS Report.
Example:
Boss: Did you get that project done?
Me: Actually I haven't had time to start a
new one.
Boss: Mmmm yeah, well
send me a
TPS Report with its status.
Me: This Place Sucks.