NEW WORDS FOR 2007 : Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!!
1. BLAMESTORMINGSitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or aproject 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 successand advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard ..
4.SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimmingupstream 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 acube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. [have also heard another definition from the movie Rat Race]
7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couchpotato.
8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. WhatYuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops workingto stay home with the kids.
9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed outand whiny. 10.SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered uselessbecause magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11.XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one'sworkplace. 12.IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoyingbut you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
13.PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of anelectronic device to get it to work again.
14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning justabove the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere areoften profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they weredesigned 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 thesame no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls,and subdivisions.
17.OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realizethat you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an emailby mistake).
18.WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
19. CROP DUSTING : Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through aCube Farm.
"If I could put my favortie things in a trunk,... you've just opened the lid"
Thursday, March 1, 2007
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