by B-money April 14, 2005
To repetitively be asked for something by different people all with the same organization to the point of making you nauseous. Made famous by the movie Office Space.
Man, these idiots up there at the division staff are TPS Reporting the hell out of me! Six of them have all called in the last hour asking for that brief I put together last night.
by Pete Z. November 08, 2007
In software development, a TPS Report is a quality assurance document that stands for "Testing Procedure Specification". This report is part of the IEEE 829 standards.
However, in the modern cubicle culture, TPS is an acronym meaning "Totally Pointless Stuff", which was made famous in the movie Office Space. TPS Reports are meaningless pieces of documentation that must be filled out but that nobody reads.
As an inside joke, many cubicle workers have duped their managers into renaming their routine status reports as "TPS reports" under the guise of other acroyms such as "Time and Productivity Status"
However, in the modern cubicle culture, TPS is an acronym meaning "Totally Pointless Stuff", which was made famous in the movie Office Space. TPS Reports are meaningless pieces of documentation that must be filled out but that nobody reads.
As an inside joke, many cubicle workers have duped their managers into renaming their routine status reports as "TPS reports" under the guise of other acroyms such as "Time and Productivity Status"
by Bernie Klinder July 14, 2005
Most commonly known to the average worker as a Totally Pointless Stuff Report, management views these as
Sending a list of completed goals to your management because they are too lazy to read a standard status report to get updates.
by BoB December 23, 2003
We use them at work, Used to be called
Project Reports. I managed to get the
report retitled on the form as
Total Project Summary Report, now referred to as TPS reports, giggles from us, blank stares from them.
Project Reports. I managed to get the
report retitled on the form as
Total Project Summary Report, now referred to as TPS reports, giggles from us, blank stares from them.
by Anonymous September 08, 2003
Reffered to in the movie "Office Space", when Peter Gibbons's boss lectures him on the 'proper way to file TPS reports'.
by Joe February 20, 2004
BOSS: "Mya, Did you get the memo? We're now using the new cover on all TPS Reports. If you could just do that, that would be great. Thanks."
by Michael Bolton April 03, 2003