Essential NEW WORDS FOR 2003

Essential NEW WORDS FOR 2003 editions for the [censored] place 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. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there maybe cake, coffee and

doughnuts.)

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 whiney.

XEROX SUBSIDY

Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE

The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get

it to [censored] 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.

This is often affiliated with the dreaded “administrivia” needless

paperwork and processes.

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.

WOOFYS

Well Off Older Folks.