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> >>Essential additions to the workplace vocabulary. > >> > >> > >>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. > >> > >>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. > >> > >>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 J-Lo and Ben wedding > >>(or not) was a prime example. > >> > >>PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an > >>electronic device to get it to work again. > >> > >>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. > >> > >>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, and > >>subdivisions. > >> > >>OHNOSECOND: That miniscule fraction of time in which you realize that > >>you've just made a BIG mistake. > >> > >>WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks. > >> > >>CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a Cube Farm
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