New office vocabulary

Stevo · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject: New office vocabulary

I got this in an email and thought it was worth posting:

>NEW WORDS FOR 2004
>
>The following are essential additions for 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.
>
>
>PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
>electronic device to get it to work again.
>
>404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404
>Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
>
>CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then
>enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust.
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