I very consistently abbreviate “follow up” as “f/u” in my work notes and to-do lists because mentally pronouncing it as such amuses me. “f you doc comments.” “f you quarterly planning.”

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@kistaro Back when I did audio transcription, if we had a client who absolutely demanded our work contain zero "inaudible" markers--- which required us to make a lot of absurd guesses and made the whole thing about 4x more stressful-- I would just start
"guessing" the names of jazz musicians. "We're going to have having a new mingus(?) in the fourth quarter, and we will be sending a new management team to South Corea(?)." O:)

Nobody ever said a damn word.

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