[Nolug] Fwd: NEW WORDS FOR 2007

I think you all will like this.

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. Often feel like doing this to

my computer......

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.

-- 
Trey Fox
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