Americanisms in the work place

[Kris]

Don't know if it's american but it annoys me greatly when people say things in that NATO phonetic alphabet like whisky alfa bravo

I have people calling my work reading them off so frantically youd think they were trying to send coordinates in Vietnam.

I know it is helpful sometimes but it takes me more time to work out what begins with what.

One time a colleague was giving out a password to a user over the phone.

It's a for affect.... No Affect. Not effect
It's m for mnemonic...
P for pneumonia
T for tsunami

etc etc.

The user called back shortly afterwards with a locked account. How we laughed.