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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Pointless busy-work assigned to you by your boss, often a list of completed goals.
Reffered to in the movie "Office Space", when Peter Gibbons's boss lectures him on the 'proper way to file TPS reports'.
The shit your boss makes you do.
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."