Iceman, post: 385817, member: 579 wrote: This is why I do not use abbreviations.
Standard Form (some time back) at the Oklahoma Highway Dept. for employee file information including home address etc. had some instructions at the top directing the employee to fill out the Section A of the form. The directions read "Employee to fill out Section A (N.A.)".
We all had seen the forms for years and nobody seemed to know what the "N.A." One elderly clerk that had been around at the creation of the standard form finally admitted it stood for "No Abbreviations"....
Iceman, post: 385817, member: 579 wrote: This is why I do not use abbreviations.
Where abbreviations are used there must be a legend. Or a decoder ring. I also try to avoid using abbreviations in finished products.
Scott Ellis, post: 385633, member: 7154 wrote: Beginning Point, Bad Point, Bad Pin, Brass pin or plate would get my vote.
Per Kent, Bad Point would actually be "NFG"...... ( I came REEEEEEALLY close to stamping that on a Brass cap at a bogus location recently)
Wait!!!!!! Does bogus surveying really exist or is it all just a figment of Keith's imagination? (Sorry, newcomers. This is an inside joke.)
Holy Cow, post: 386109, member: 50 wrote: Wait!!!!!! Does bogus surveying really exist or is it all just a figment of Keith's imagination? (Sorry, newcomers. This is an inside joke.)
The correct term is Q.D. (quickie Dickie)
Bearing Point in a series of calls.