Meaning of TPS report | Babel Free

Definitions

An abstract item of corporate bureaucracy.

informal

Examples

“Bill Lumbergh: Hello, Peter. What's happening? Ah, we have sort of a problem here. Yeaaah, you apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS reports? Peter Gibbons: Oh, yeah, I'm sorry about that. I forgot. Bill: Mmmh, yeah. You see, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out. Did you see the memo about this? Peter: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I have the memo right here. I just forgot. But it's not shipping out 'til tomorrow so there's no problem. Bill: Yeaaah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that would be great. And I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo. M'kay? Peter: Yeah, no, no, no, I have... [Bill walks off.]”

“To promote reuse, the date_required variable holds the day the TPS reports are due. With this, you can reuse the script for any time the reports are due. The pithy_statement variable holds a pithy statement to end the message.”

“I was sitting there last Tuesday working on your typical TPS report when a series of events unfolded that made me realize that I needed a change.”

“Spending all of your time doing one thing, be it video games, filling out TPS reports, or anything else, the human brain literally can become one-dimensional.”

“Supervisor: “I need you to remember to file the TPS report by 5:00 p.m. Friday, because Ms. Smith will be returning Monday and will need access to them in order to meet her end-of-day deadline on Tuesday. […]””

“In general, a business to business, B2B, approach has a longer sales cycle. For example, if you worked at a software company and your job was to fill out TPS reports, you might suggest using an outside service to help fill out the reports.”

“How much we have of these chemicals, or how much or how little our bodies can produce under normal circumstances, is why some people can sit and file TPS reports for hours without getting bored, and others (like us) simply can't.”

“You know the situation: you have to finish that TPS report for your boss, fix a bug that shipped to production, and figure out which of your co-workers borrowed your stapler (it's Jeff again, isn't it?), all before day's end.”

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