Post by earthdog on Jul 26, 2006 21:50:17 GMT -5
Essential Additions for the Workplace Vocabulary:
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 by working hard.
4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming
upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
5. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
potato.
6. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.
7. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying
but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The Anna Nicole
show or the Bachelor is a prime example.
8. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.
9. 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.
10. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message
"404 Not found" (meaning that the requested document, like the
person's brain, could not be located).
11. GENERICA: Features of the North American landscape that are exactly
the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls,
and subdivisions.
12. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
that you've just made a BIG mistake.
13. WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.
14. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
15. 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.
16. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube
farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust (leads to PRAIRIE
dogging)
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 by working hard.
4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming
upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
5. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
potato.
6. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.
7. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying
but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The Anna Nicole
show or the Bachelor is a prime example.
8. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.
9. 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.
10. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message
"404 Not found" (meaning that the requested document, like the
person's brain, could not be located).
11. GENERICA: Features of the North American landscape that are exactly
the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls,
and subdivisions.
12. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
that you've just made a BIG mistake.
13. WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.
14. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
15. 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.
16. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube
farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust (leads to PRAIRIE
dogging)