NEW WORDS FOR 2003

[Takara_Soong 4]

NEW WORDS FOR 2003 - 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 (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't) 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

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PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:

The fine art of whacking the (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't) out of an electronic device

to get it to work again.

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