Filed here, in alphabetical disorder, are the Known Repeat Offenders of Acronym Abuse - cases so blatant, so redundant, that STOP's Tactical Response Unit no longer even sighs when they come in.
RAS Syndrome occurs when a person, sign-writer, or entire government department appends the word an acronym already contains, right back onto the acronym. It is, tragically, a condition with no known cure - only management.
Charge: Personal Identification Number Number
SEVERITY: 5 - CHRONICCharge: Automated Teller Machine Machine
SEVERITY: 5 - CHRONICCharge: Vehicle Identification Number Number
SEVERITY: 3Charge: Liquid Crystal Display Display
SEVERITY: 3Charge: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Virus
SEVERITY: 3Charge: International Standard Book Number Number
SEVERITY: 1Charge: Random Access Memory Memory
SEVERITY: 1Charge: Graphical User Interface Interface
SEVERITY: 1The office equivalent of a chemical spill. Reported live from an all-hands meeting near you:
"We need to leverage our KPIs to hit our ROI on the SLA, ASAP, or Legal's going to loop in HR about the SOP for the RFP."
This sentence has been classified a Category 5 Acronym Event and referred directly to the Strategic Planning Working Group, who will discuss it at their next KPI review of the meeting about the KPI review.
| Acronym | Sighted In | Threat Level |
|---|---|---|
| ASAP | Every email since 1998 | LOW |
| SLA | Vendor contracts nobody has read | MEDIUM |
| KPI | All-hands meetings, performance reviews, nightmares | MEDIUM |
| SKDRF ("Synergistic KPI-Driven ROI Framework") | A single LinkedIn post, viewed 4,000,000 times | CRITICAL |
Spotted a Redundant Acronym Syndrome case in the wild? File it below. Reports are read, filed, and - per Charter clause 14(b) - respectfully ignored.