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New words for 2006
NEW WORDS FOR 2006
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. The
J-Lo
and Ben wedding (or not) was a prime example - Michael Jackson,
another...
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.
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