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tps report 

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"
Our weekly TPS reports were filled with context-free grammer
tps report by Bernie Klinder August 3, 2005
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TPS report 

You must remember to have the new cover sheet for these reports, otherwise Bill and everyone else in the office will annoy you.
You apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS reports.
TPS report by Austin James April 6, 2004

TPS Report 

A burdensome report that Peter must produce in the movie "Office Space."
Uhhh...yeeahhh..I'm gonna need you to put a cover memo on that TPS Report.
TPS Report by B-money April 14, 2005

tps report 

Toilet Paper Sheet reports.
As in : What your boss does with TPS reports.
tps report by el_picardo February 27, 2004

TPS Report 

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.
TPS Report by Pete Z. December 1, 2007

tps reports

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.
tps reports by BoB December 23, 2003

tps reports

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.
tps reports by Anonymous September 8, 2003
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