TPS report (Office Space)

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TPS report became a term to describe any mindless paperwork after its use in the comedy film Office Space, which followed three software engineers who were fed up with their jobs. This came from a scene in which Peter Gibbons (the main character) had forgotten to put the new cover sheet on his TPS report, which his boss, Bill Lumbergh, informed him was a standard practice according to a recent memo. The explanation that "We're putting new cover sheets on all of our TPS reports now before they go out," is usually followed by "Didn't you get the memo?" and comes from one of Bill Lumbergh's lines.

TPS Reports in the movie were probably Test Procedure Specification Reports, but in the popular context, "TPS" has become a backronym for "Totally Pointless Stuff", "Total Piece of Shit," "This Place Sucks", "Totally Pointless Shit", "This Project Sucks", "Time-Pass Stuff", "The Paper Shredder" or "Toilet Paper Sheets".