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had this one emailed to me by a good friend.

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Essential New Words for 2003 editions 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 the 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 couchpotato.

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

and whiney.

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.)

OHNOSECOND-- That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize

that you've just made a BIG mistake.

WOOFies-- Well Off Older Folks

CROP DUSTING-- Surreptitiously farting while passing through a

cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust-- leads to

PRAIRIEDOGGING


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Hehe, some of those are good.

I like Blamestorming, Assmosis, Mousepotato, and adminisphere.

Didn't I post or link to something on Administratium? If not, search for it. Hilarious.

Assmosis is sad but true. Managers like to have their egos stroked. They also like immediate answers. Wrong or not. "I'll make sure" just doesn't cut it for some people.

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I've had a few OHNOSECONDs, like during rifle qual accidently jerking the trigger knocking my round WAY off target, probably hittin someone elses target. Thats when u realize getting Expert is pretty much out the window.

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Originally posted by Grayfox:

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE-- The fine art of whacking the crap out of

an electronic device to get it to work again.

I've heard that called "Impact Engineering." That's what all Microsoft products are based on.

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