Essential NEW WORDS FOR 2004 additions for the work-place vocabulary.
TESTICULATING
Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks.
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 people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking 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.
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 that’s going on.(This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be
cake.)
MOUSE POTATO
The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.
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 or start a “home business.”
STRESS PUPPY
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
XEROX SUBSIDY
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE
The fine art of whacking the side of an electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE
The rarefied organisational 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. This is often affiliated with the dreaded “administrivia” – needless paperwork and processes.
OHNOSECOND
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you’ve just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you’ve hit ‘reply all’)
WOOFies
Well Off Older Folk
REDWING
“Money is a currency, like electricity and it requires momentum to make it Effective”
Count The Currency With This Online Positive Cashflow CalculatorYou got me laughing Redwing… maybe because it’s really late, maybe because it’s my birthday and it’s “all over” I may as well laugh, or maybe just because I can relate all too much… [biggrin] Looks like I really am a mouse potato then…? [blink][blink]Thanks for the late night giggle!
Ali G
Just emailed those to everyone I work with.
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