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NEW WORDS FOR 2003
10 October 2003 | From the ether of the internet
Essential NEW WORDS FOR 2003 editions of 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 whiney.
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies
from one's workplace.
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.
OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which
you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
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