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NEW WORDS FOR 2007:
Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace!!!
1. BLAMESTORMING:
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps
on everything, and then leaves.
3. ASSMOSIS:
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard .
4. SALMON DAY :
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
5. CUBE FARM:
An office filled with cubicles.
6. PRAIRIE DOGGING:
When people's heads pop up over the walls of a cube farm to see what's going on. (Not a new term in 2007
but still applies.)
7. MOUSE POTATO:
The on-line, wired generation's answer to the
couch potato.
8. SITCOMs:
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
9. STRESS PUPPY:
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
10. SWIPEOUT:
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11. XEROX SUBSIDY:
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
12. IRRITAINMENT:
Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
14. 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.
15. 404:
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web
error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.
16. GENERICA:
Features of the American landscape that are exactly
the same no matter where one is, such as fast food
joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
17. OHNOSECOND :
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
that you've just made a BIG mistake.
(Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).
18. WOOFS:
Well-Off Older Folks.
19. CROP DUSTING:
Surreptitiously passing gas while passing
through a Cube Farm
true!
NEW WORDS FOR 2007:
Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace!!!
1. BLAMESTORMING:
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps
on everything, and then leaves.
3. ASSMOSIS:
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard .
4. SALMON DAY :
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
5. CUBE FARM:
An office filled with cubicles.
6. PRAIRIE DOGGING:
When people's heads pop up over the walls of a cube farm to see what's going on. (Not a new term in 2007
but still applies.)
7. MOUSE POTATO:
The on-line, wired generation's answer to the
couch potato.
8. SITCOMs:
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
9. STRESS PUPPY:
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
10. SWIPEOUT:
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11. XEROX SUBSIDY:
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
12. IRRITAINMENT:
Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
14. 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.
15. 404:
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web
error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.
16. GENERICA:
Features of the American landscape that are exactly
the same no matter where one is, such as fast food
joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
17. OHNOSECOND :
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
that you've just made a BIG mistake.
(Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).
18. WOOFS:
Well-Off Older Folks.
19. CROP DUSTING:
Surreptitiously passing gas while passing
through a Cube Farm
true!