TigerLily
06-24-2001, 01:34 AM
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.
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss.
Blamestorming - sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Body Nazis - hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.
Chainsaw consultant - an outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
CLM - Career Limiting Move - Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles.
Ego surfing - scanning the Net, databases, print media, and so on, looking for references to one's own name.
Elvis year - the peak year of something's popularity "Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993."
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon.
404 - someone who is clueless, from the World Wide Web error message 404 Not Found", meaning the requested document couldn't be located "Don't bother asking him, he's 404.
Idea hamsters - people who always seem to have their idea generators running.
Mouse potato - the on-line generation's answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big mistake.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Prairie dogging - something loud happens in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, ****s over everything and then leaves.
SITCOM - stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
Stress puppy - a person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Tourists - those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs -- "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists."
Uninstalled - euphemism for being fired.
Umfriend - A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship, as in "This is Dyan, my ... um ... friend."
Xerox subsidy - euphemism for swiping free photocopies from a workplace.
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss.
Blamestorming - sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Body Nazis - hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.
Chainsaw consultant - an outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
CLM - Career Limiting Move - Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles.
Ego surfing - scanning the Net, databases, print media, and so on, looking for references to one's own name.
Elvis year - the peak year of something's popularity "Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993."
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon.
404 - someone who is clueless, from the World Wide Web error message 404 Not Found", meaning the requested document couldn't be located "Don't bother asking him, he's 404.
Idea hamsters - people who always seem to have their idea generators running.
Mouse potato - the on-line generation's answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big mistake.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Prairie dogging - something loud happens in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, ****s over everything and then leaves.
SITCOM - stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
Stress puppy - a person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Tourists - those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs -- "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists."
Uninstalled - euphemism for being fired.
Umfriend - A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship, as in "This is Dyan, my ... um ... friend."
Xerox subsidy - euphemism for swiping free photocopies from a workplace.