Lexicographic Chuckle

[Studlover (imported)]

Lexicographic Chuckle

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 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.

[Dave (imported)]

I've known some really good Seagull Managers and Assmosis coworkers in my time.

[Zoroaster (imported)]

When I used to work in restaurants, "Cropdusting" was a preferred techinique for getting laggardly customers to leave.

[Studlover (imported)]

When I used to work in restaurants, "Cropdusting" was a preferred techinique for getting laggardly customers to leave.

Ah! Yes, I remember that now from *my* days in the restaurant business.

Studlover