[Discussion] new words

[Paksoy, Hb]

>NEW WORDS FOR 2002 - 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 answer to the couch potato. 

> 

>SITCOM: 

>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. 

> 

>STARTER MARRIAGE: 

>A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, 

>no property and no regrets. 

> 

>STRESS PUPPY: 

>A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. 

> 

>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. trial 

>was a prime example. Bill Clinton's Grand Jury testimony is 

>another. 

> 

>PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: 

>The fine art of whacking the shit out of an electronic device 

>to get it to work again. 

> 

>VULCAN NERVE PINCH: 

>The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate 

>keys for some computer commands. 

> 

>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. 

> 

>WOOFYS: 

>Well Off Older Folks