Derya Aydin
Derya Aydin began with a grudge against acronyms that multiplied during a fourteen-year career locating silverfish behind municipal file cabinets. In their mid-forties, they gave up pest-control callouts to pursue the hobby of tracing each abbreviation to its first approval, where the original noun is usually still awaiting concurrence.
Articles by Derya Aydin
Telework Policy Requires Employees to Be in the Office to Apply for Telework
The application must be submitted on a physical form available only from the HR office, notarized by the building's notary, and hand-delivered to a supervisor who works remotely.
Department Issues Formal Apology for Informal Apology That Violated Apology Protocol
The original apology, delivered verbally and without the required Apology Impact Assessment, has itself become the subject of a compliance investigation.
New Employee Discovers Entire Department Exists to Approve Work of Another Department That No Longer Exists
The Department of Secondary Review has been reviewing outputs from the Department of Primary Analysis since 1994, apparently unaware that Primary Analysis was dissolved in 2003.
Committee Formed to Investigate Why Previous Committee Accomplished Nothing
The new Committee on Committee Effectiveness has been given a two-year mandate and a budget identical to the committee it is investigating.