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Are "TPS Reports" a real thing?!

I thought they were just a jokey gag name that they created in the Office Space movie to represent pointless busy work. This is like all the times as an adult I finally understood a joke I heard in The Simpsons back when I was a kid!

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TPS stands for Test Procedure Specification [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPS_report

At one company, I was responsible for putting together all the third-party software and their licenses. I called it the TPS report :)

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