This is one carried over from the old forum
Essential NEW WORDS for the work-place 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 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.
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. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because
there may be cake.)
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 farting while passing through a cube farm, then
enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE
DOGGING.
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