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(Message started by: gladiola on Jul 22^nd, 2002, 2:01am)

Title: new vocabulary
Post by gladiola on Jul 22^nd, 2002, 2:01am

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 were a prime example.

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, subdivisions.

OHNOSECOND:
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
that you've just made a BIG mistake.

WOOFYS:
Well Off Older Folks.