xrocketengineer
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During my waning years working on the Space Shuttle, the powers from above decided that for every document generated by the contractors preparing the Shuttle for flight and reviewed by the NASA engineers, the NASA engineers would fill out an evaluation sheet to record the number and type of errors found. The intent was to use the information for data collection. The NASA engineers were not too happy about having to fill out the extra evaluation forms and they became commonly called "PITA forms" as in pain in the a... after one of my engineers started using the name.
Eventually the word (of the name) got to the powers above. One of the project engineers was commissioned to send an Email to all the NASA engineers to cease and desist of calling the forms PITA. I could not resist the urge and replied to the Email with my most serious tone that PITA was a formal acronym that it stood for Process Insight and Trend Analysis which was my best BS. My group of engineers got a real kick out of the email apology I received back from the project engineer. Then in the best "Dilbert" tradition the forms were officially named PITA Forms.
Eventually the word (of the name) got to the powers above. One of the project engineers was commissioned to send an Email to all the NASA engineers to cease and desist of calling the forms PITA. I could not resist the urge and replied to the Email with my most serious tone that PITA was a formal acronym that it stood for Process Insight and Trend Analysis which was my best BS. My group of engineers got a real kick out of the email apology I received back from the project engineer. Then in the best "Dilbert" tradition the forms were officially named PITA Forms.