PK'd

Often times individuals at the Shitshow are so memorable and such a flunkie that their name becomes common usage to describe certain things.  For example, the act of doing nothing at work is referred to as “Bobing it up” while the act of loosing your temper is referred to as “going off King Kong style.”

However, the most common term used is PK’d.  PK is an old timer in the test group.  Part of the test groups responsibility is to run long test (sometimes day’s long) and then save the data after the test is complete.  Sometimes this data is digital, sometimes it’s physical.  But it’s safe to say, if PK was in charge of the data, it will be lost resulting in the entire test needed to be run again.

PK’d now refers to anything that was lost or never materialized.   If someone leaves the company for greener pastures they PK’d the Shitshow.  If your functional manager tells you about a promotion that should be coming but it never does, you got PK’d by the shitshow.  If you remove a “friend” from Facebook, you PK’s that person.

Because PK’d has entered my lexicon, I throw rocks.