NEW WORDS FOR 2008 - May 12, 2008
Essential
vocabulary additions for the workplace (and
elsewhere)!!!
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 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.