NEW WORDS FOR 2005: Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary
>
> 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 turn 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 the 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. The J-Lo and Ben
> wedding (or not) was a prime example.
>
> 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 document 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.
>
> 18. WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
>
> 19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a
Cube
> Farm.
