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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:43 PM
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Time for a laugh!
Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who can we blame for the goof.

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: Is an office filled with, one size fits all, 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?it is what yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

Stress Puppy: Is a person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.

Swipeout: Is 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: Are entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. Reality TV shows are 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 "404 Not Found," meaning 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, subdivisions, etc.

Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a Big mistake.

Woofys: Well Off Older Folks.

Crop Dusting: Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, and enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust.

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elfin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:56 PM
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1. Thanks!
Haven't seen this before.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:01 PM
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2. We just got a Stress Puppy in our office.
Stress Puppy: Is a person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.

Has a horrible cold, won't stay home, and makes the most DISGUSTING noises with nary an "excuse me."
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