One of our client companies was named after a girl who died very young. This company had a board of directors, or bod. Anyway, some expenditures were made without approval from the bod. The bod was rather upset with us. They can go for weeks without responding, and often miss deadlines.
Some of us were discussing how hot [the company]'s bod was, and how her bod wasn't very responsive. Sometimes, you get the nod, then there is a reversal. The monies paid had approval at the time. So, we wanted to see her bod, and compare what her bod had with the approval paperwork. The conversation went along those lines.
We were all reported to HR. We were advised that, going forward, we should refer to it as "board". That's just great. We have the board of commissioners, the board of administrators, the board of executives, the board of HR professionals and several other boards. This was a closed-door meeting, and the person who complained was not in the room.
To remove the confusion, one of the people in the group suggested abbreviating the names. The board of administrators would be the board of admins; the board of executives would be the board of exec's; the board of commissioners would be the board of com's; and the boards of directors and HR professionals would be abbreviated with slang terms for male and female body parts, respectively. Yeah, if the HR manager had told the person who complained to mind her own business and not listen in on private conversations, things would have been fine.
