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Essential new words for 2004
« on: Jan 7th, 2004, 10:22am » |
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BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
> >> was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
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> >> SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise,
> >> craps on everything and then leaves.
> >>
> >> ASSMOSIS: The process by which people seem to absorb success and
> >> advancement by sucking 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.
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> >> CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
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> >> 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. This also applies to applause from a promotion because
> >> there may be cake.
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> >> 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 or "start a home business".
> >>
> >> STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out
> >> and whiny.
> >>
> >> XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
> >> workplace.
> >>
> >> 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. This is often affiliated
> >> with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and
> >> processes.
> >>
> >> 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message
> >> "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be
> >> located.
> >>
> >> OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
> >> that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g.
> >> you've hit 'reply all').
> >>
> >> CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while walking through a
> >> cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to
> >> PRAIRIE DOGGING.
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