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Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by BobaFloutist on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:39PM (#47457078)
>my AHT flagged me

Is that "American Hairless Terrier" or "Aldershot Railway Station"?

Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by btreesOfSpring on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:58PM (#47457366)
Acronym use here to single being part of an in-group. It is one of the most annoying shift in tech language over the past decade. I partly blame it on all the certification testing that has popped up over that time frame.

It isn't like there hasn't always been tech acronyms but they are so causally communicated these days without regard for audience.

Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by batch12 on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:13PM (#47457569)
This one is a call center metric. Similar to after call work or first call resolution. This one, I believe, is average handle time.
Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by bobbob1921 on Friday March 20, 2026 @02:33PM (#47458710)
This comment is so spot on, it’s also big in military circles, especially over past 15 years. It can even be said that frequent (over) use of acronyms is based in insecurity
Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by m463 on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:08PM (#47459183)
Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by wat10000 on Friday March 20, 2026 @04:35PM (#47460256)
That highly prestigious in-group of call-center workers....

It's just jargon. Sometimes people forget that their jargon isn't universal.

Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by midtake on Friday March 20, 2026 @05:31PM (#47460870)
If you're not part of their industry, just look up the acronyms instead of getting mad. "Audience" is laughable, they are not posting solely for your entertainment.

And my guess is "average hold time." If you use your brain, you can figure most of them out, unless they are adversarially confusing acronyms.

Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by throwaway2037 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @08:39AM (#47466482)

    > over the past decade
You must be young. Do you not think there were similarly acronym infested tech speak in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s? All of those decades also had plenty of certification testing.
Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by mjuarez on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:46PM (#47457174)
Average Hold Time
Re:HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait ti... by Zircom on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:54PM (#47458172)
Average Handle Time actually