[SOC] Fw: New words for 2006

[Bob Krueger]

submitted by Bob Krueger WB9UKQ




NEW WORDS FOR 2006: 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. A$SMOSIS : 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.