ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY FOR THE WORKPLACE
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 peoples' 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. SITCOM:
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 has been 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. 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.
14. 404:
Someone who's clueless. from the WWW message Error Message: "404 Not Found", meaning that the requested site could not be located.
15. WOOFS
Well-Off Older Folks
16. OHNOSECOND:
That miniscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just mad a BIG mistake. (ie: hitting "send" on an e-mail by mistake)
17. CROP DUSTING:
Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through the Cube Farm.
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 peoples' 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. SITCOM:
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 has been 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. 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.
14. 404:
Someone who's clueless. from the WWW message Error Message: "404 Not Found", meaning that the requested site could not be located.
15. WOOFS
Well-Off Older Folks
16. OHNOSECOND:
That miniscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just mad a BIG mistake. (ie: hitting "send" on an e-mail by mistake)
17. CROP DUSTING:
Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through the Cube Farm.