it’s faster typed out as well. When I worked call centres, we’d shorthand all of our notes because we had 15-30 seconds to wrap up the final notes after the call ended, not to mention no agent wants to read a novel to get up to speed.
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derekabutton@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Just pulling this out of my ass, but perhaps it’s an artifact from handwritten medical charts. GSW is shorter to write.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Rhoeri@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
Ooh! That’s probably it! I hadn’t thought of it that way.