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Big Muddy rancher

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NEW WORDS FOR THE 2006 WORKPLACE -

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.



I think I like Mouse potato the best :!:
 
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