NEW WORDS FOR 2003 - Essential additions to the workplace vocabulary

[Aim High]

NEW WORDS FOR 2003 - 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, One Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one 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.

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 meant to solve.

OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

[El Cid]

Aim, if everyone was like you, the world woudl be a great place.. It's nice to read such lighthearted humour, although I'm afraid only someone with a G- rated sense of humour would could truly appreciate those definitions. Keep up the good work Aim:).

[Aim High]

Thanks El Cid ... a little clean humour goes a long way too!

[[A.S.H.]Colossus]

im the biggest asshole in the world with a very morbid sense of humor and thought that was friggin hilarious.

[COL.BUKKAKE]

Originally posted by [A.S.H.]Colossus
im the biggest asshole in the world with a very morbid sense of humor and thought that was friggin hilarious.

I second that, you do have the biggest asshole in the world, Colossus:D

[Ruci Profile]

Pfft, I've been using cube farm since before y2k.

Everything else though is right on. =)

[El Cid]

Ooops, sounds like I was a little condescending to Aim, telling him his jokes could only be apreciated by kids. Oops! Sorry!

[Xenius]

Nice post, liked the salmon one hehe.

[#1HiTPoInT]

Neat!