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 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.
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 pro foundly
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.
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Woofs… I am gonna use that!