Essential NEW WORDS FOR 2004 editions for the work-place 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 people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking 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. CUBE FARM An office filled with cubicles. PRAIRIE DOGGING When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and peoples heads pop up over the walls to see whats going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.) MOUSE POTATO The on-line, wired generations 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 or start a home business. STRESS PUPPY A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. XEROX SUBSIDY Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from ones 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. This is often affiliated with the dreaded administrivia - needless paperwork and processes. 404 Someone whos 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 youve just made a BIG mistake (e.g. youve hit reply all). CROP DUSTING Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust.
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