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
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 turn 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 the 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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Aug 25, 2006 @ 12:08
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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
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 turn 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 the 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.
addaxnatAug 25, 2006 @ 12:08
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
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 turn 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 the 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.
addaxnatAug 25, 2006 @ 12:08
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Re: new words for 2006 :
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Aug 25, 2006 @ 13:18
1. BLAMESTORMING:
Just had a virtual one (oh well I was the one they decided to blame .. but .. that's life!)
2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
Happened yesterday, a new VP arrived 18months ago, changed everything and annocuned yesterday he was leaving
4. SALMON DAY: day in - day out ...
17. OHNOSECOND: How many of these can u have in a day??
Just had a virtual one (oh well I was the one they decided to blame .. but .. that's life!)
2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
Happened yesterday, a new VP arrived 18months ago, changed everything and annocuned yesterday he was leaving
4. SALMON DAY: day in - day out ...
17. OHNOSECOND: How many of these can u have in a day??
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1. BLAMESTORMING:
Just had a virtual one (oh well I was the one they decided to blame .. but .. that's life!)
2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
Happened yesterday, a new VP arrived 18months ago, changed everything and annocuned yesterday he was leaving
4. SALMON DAY: day in - day out ...
17. OHNOSECOND: How many of these can u have in a day??
Hoiling, Aug 25, 2006 @ 13:18
Just had a virtual one (oh well I was the one they decided to blame .. but .. that's life!)
2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
Happened yesterday, a new VP arrived 18months ago, changed everything and annocuned yesterday he was leaving
4. SALMON DAY: day in - day out ...
17. OHNOSECOND: How many of these can u have in a day??
Hoiling, Aug 25, 2006 @ 13:18
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Aug 25, 2006 @ 13:51
That one seriously cracked me up. Good one!
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That one seriously cracked me up. Good one!
nancy, Aug 25, 2006 @ 13:51
nancy, Aug 25, 2006 @ 13:51
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Aug 25, 2006 @ 16:34
you should take pride in being blamed for that one (whatever it was....) :
in my experience, the one being blamed is usually the one working the hardest (the others can't be blamed because they don't do shit !!!!), so chin up, lady !!! ;o)
in my experience, the one being blamed is usually the one working the hardest (the others can't be blamed because they don't do shit !!!!), so chin up, lady !!! ;o)
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you should take pride in being blamed for that one (whatever it was....) :
in my experience, the one being blamed is usually the one working the hardest (the others can't be blamed because they don't do shit !!!!), so chin up, lady !!! ;o)
addaxnat, Aug 25, 2006 @ 16:34
in my experience, the one being blamed is usually the one working the hardest (the others can't be blamed because they don't do shit !!!!), so chin up, lady !!! ;o)
addaxnat, Aug 25, 2006 @ 16:34
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