-Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:
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BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed
or a project failed, and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything,
and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
KISSUPOLOGY: The study of ASSMOSIS......
SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only
to get screwed and die in the end.
CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
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.
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
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.
STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no
kids, no property and no regrets.
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the
magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you
find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O. J. trials were a prime example.
Bill Clinton's Grand Jury testimony is another.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the sh*t out of an electronic
device to get it to work again (AKA Han Soloing).
VULCAN NERVE PINCH: The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate
keys for certain commands. For instance, the arm reboot for Mac II computer involves
simultaneously pressing the Control Key, the Command Key, the Return Key, and the
Power On key. For Windows it's Ctrl, Alt, Delete simultaneously.
ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layer 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. 404: Someone who's clueless.
From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested
document could not be located.
GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter
where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just
made a BIG mistake.
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