NEW WORDS FOR 2006: 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.
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>2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise,
>craps on everything, and then leaves.
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>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.
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>5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles
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>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.
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>7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
>potato.
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>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.
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>9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
>whiny.
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>10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless
>because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
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>11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
>workplace.
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>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 - Michael Jackson, another.
>
>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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)
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>18. WOOFS : Well-Off Older Folks.
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>19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a
>Cube Farm.