# For all of you who work in an office.....

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**Created:** [January 13, 2005, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-all-of-you-who-work-in-an-office/171653 "2005-01-13T08:12:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![EcoThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EcoThunder](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EcoThunder)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-all-of-you-who-work-in-an-office/171653/1 "2005-01-13T08:12:20Z")

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NEW WORDS FOR 2005: Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary  
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\> 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.

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**Author:** ![ninjenn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c67d28/32.png) [@ninjenn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninjenn)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-all-of-you-who-work-in-an-office/171653/2 "2005-01-13T08:13:56Z")

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1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a  
deadline

\> was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

\> 3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success  
\> and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

Oh yeah, those are going straight up on the bulletin board!!! 🤣

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**Author:** ![bobby311](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bobby311/32/5971_2.png) [@bobby311](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bobby311)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-all-of-you-who-work-in-an-office/171653/3 "2005-01-13T08:42:49Z")

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CROP Dusting \> \*

walk over to someones cube…let a SBD rip walk away sprayin the place!

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**Author:** ![smokeyburnouts](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/smokeyburnouts/32/5987_2.png) [@smokeyburnouts](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/smokeyburnouts)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-all-of-you-who-work-in-an-office/171653/4 "2005-01-13T08:43:14Z")

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alot of those listed can be found in my workplace, haha

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**Author:** ![S10Blazed\_Si](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/s10blazed_si/32/5983_2.png) [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-all-of-you-who-work-in-an-office/171653/5 "2005-01-13T08:48:22Z")

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TOO TRUE! HAHA 🤣