Protected

A few months ago the company I work for was bought by another company and the named changed. Now there’s an acronym in front of the old name. For the life of me I have not been able to keep straight what the new name is. I know I keep saying it wrong in one way or the other, which is awkward on conference calls, and when the IT people recently had to reset my password and they used the company name in it and I was so completely unable to type that password correctly–was it CF or FC??? which one was capitalized???–and clearly too stupid to look it up, I ended up locking myself out of my computer from putting incorrect passwords in so much and I had to contact IT all over again. You can bet they love me over there.

So finally I created this handy mnemonic to help me remember the name of the place that employs me: if you say the acronym like a word, it can kinda sound like “isasyif.” Like “it’s as if.” So now I can remember my damn password if I just chant, “it’s as if this job leave me with no free time.” See? Easy as pie. And next time I update the password, which my company seems to ask me to do ever other time I log in, I’ll just use this handy technique, and create Ih2cmpatgt, or “I hate to change my password all the goddamn time,” which I mutter frequently enough I surely can’t forget it.