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New words for 2003

  • 08-05-2003 11:50am
    #1
    TomTom
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭


    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.

    STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out & whiney.

    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.

    IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O. J. trials were a prime example.

    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.

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

    GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.

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


Comments

  • #2
    gogo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    lol, here's some more

    CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, Then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; which leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.

    WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.


  • #3
    Beëlzebooze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭Beëlzebooze


    PRAIRIE DOGGING

    I always though that meant you needed a dump really bad! Like the turd keeps stikking it's head out and then slipping back in.

    Like when friving home: "Jezus, will this gob****e get out of my way, I need to get home, I'm PRAIRIE DOGGING here....."


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