At work, everyone uses acronyms, TLAs (three letter acronyms). Recently a team was created that for exactly 4 hours we called the ancillary team. Believe it or not someone shortened it to A-team. At other companies, I would object to this use of TLAs, but somehow they are positive and useful here.
A recent hire, knew that CP1 meant something significant, and just waited long enough to figure it out. Even now, 2.5 years into Intuit, I sometimes lean over in a meeting and ask what one means.
It is a "secret" language in a way. There is even a database which has all of the TLAs in it for new hires and they are encouraged to add ones that they discover are missing.
It is such a part of our culture and you can resist for a bit, but eventually you find yourself talking in shortcuts and saying things like "secret sauce" and "true north"
These are all good because we actually are aligned and speaking the same language.
Nevertheless, I was really surprised the the A-team only took nano seconds to be a part of our lingo
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