[habmann]

>Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!!
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>1. BLAMESTORMING Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
>missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
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>2. SEAGULL MANAGER : A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps
>on everything, and then leaves.
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>3. ASSMOSIS : The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
>advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard
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>4. SALMON DAY : The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream
>only to get screwed and die in the end.
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>5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.
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>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.
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>7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
>potato.
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>8. SITCOMs : Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies
>get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home
>with the kids.
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>9. STRESS PUPPY : A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
>whiny.
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>10. SWIPEOUT : An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because
>magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
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>11. XEROX SUBSIDY : Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
>workplace.
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>12. IRRITAINMENT : Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but
>you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
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>13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE : The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
>electronic device to get it to work again.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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).
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>18. WOOFS : Well-Off Older Folks.
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>19. CROP DUSTING : Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube
>Farm.