gerbil runner Posted March 7, 2004 Posted March 7, 2004 NEW WORDS FOR 2004 - Essential additions for the workplace >> >>Vocabulary: >> >>BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was >>missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. >> >>SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on >>everything, and then leaves. >> >>ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and >>advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard. >> >>SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream >only >>to get screwed and die in the end. >> >>CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles. >> >>PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube >>farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. >> >>MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. >> >>SITCOMS: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies >turn >>into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home >with >>the kids. >> >>STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and >>whiney. >> >>SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the >>magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. >> >>XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's >>workplace. >> >>IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you >>find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials and Michael >>Jackson's affairs are examples. >> >>PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an >>electronic device to get it to work again. >> >>ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the >>rank and file Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often >>profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed >to >>solve. >> >>404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 >Not >>Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. >> >>GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no >>matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, etc. >> >>OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've >just >>made a BIG mistake. >> >>WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks. >> >>CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing thru a cube farm, >>then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust. >> Quote
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