gm iprod Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 NEW WORDS FOR 2004: 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, 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. 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 J-Lo and Ben wedding (or not) was a prime example. 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 "404Not 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, and subdivisions. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. WOOF'S: Well-Off Older Folks. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a Cube Farm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warpspeed Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 LMAO very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 Hey, I've just had a Salmon-Two-and-a-Half-Years!!!!! Time for a new job!!!!! (very funny post... I've seen a lot of it. Especially BLAMESTORMING. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 Very funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 Crop dusting! LMAO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogmaDog Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Personally, I like cropdusting as I exit the elevator. My wife watches too much irritainment on the "E!" channel (which is devoted solely to irritainment, as far as I can tell). Heh, DD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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