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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When I first started working at a callcenter, I quickly went "oh I need to learn a phonetic alphabet" and printed and posted the NATO alphabet at my desk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We used to do it with everything but the NATO alphabet. Everyone had their own version, I would mostly use first names, some colleagues would do cities, animals, countries, etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reinvent the wheel - always a good use of time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Never claimed it was. It was mostly just a bit of fun in an awfully boring and shitty workplace, and got the job done good enough tbh. We're talking about a call center here not coordinating nuclear launches.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I worked in armored transportation for awhile and we did this too when checking bags of money in/out of the vault. I liked to choose a theme like "80s action movies" and see if the other person would pick up on it.