New Words for 2007

[mikepmcs]

 Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!!

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
    working hard.

4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming
    upstream only to get screwed and die in the end

5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

6. 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.

7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the
    couch potato.

8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What
    Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops
    working to stay home with the kids.

9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out
   and whiny.

10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless
      because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from
     one's workplace.

12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are
     Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out
      of an electronic device to get it to work again.

14. 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.

15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error
      Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not
      be located.

16. 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.

17. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you
      realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting
      send on an email by mistake)

18. WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing
      through a Cube Farm.

[tan top]

number one & 2  good 

[Ghoste]

I got a chuckle from them all. 

[Khyron]

I've done 19 several times 

[68chrgrwife]

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out
      of an electronic device to get it to work again.
  that is definatly hubby...the computer stops working and starts slamming the mouse around....LOL  I always yell at him to stop banging the computer it won't make it work any better...i guess it is a Navything though..they slam everything to get it to work....

[jackel440]

19 everyones guilty of this