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. ASSMOSIS: 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. Rubber-Lips and Brad's baby yet 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 justabove the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere areoften profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they weredesigned 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 thesame no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, andsubdivisions.
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.
17 comments:
Happy anniversary - let's hear it for inertia and being comfortable with the status quo.
Here from Michele's
LOL! I loved these. It's been 11 years since i worked in an office - they worked then too.
Happy 4th, Judy.
Great List! I am laughing so hard at some of these. How true most of them are too! Have a wonderful day!
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I think I have mastered #13.
These are too too funny.
Hi Judy, sorry I missed your anniversary, happy anniversary to you both, liked the inertia comment and I knew you were joking??
Also very good post today.
I've had a few of those OHNOSECONDS. Cute list!
Yup, applies to pretty much every place I've ever worked.
I wish I knew why some workplaces were so sucky and toxic. You'd think that leaders in these places would want to clean things up so that everyone could lead better lives.
I guess not. Sad.
The English language just keeps changing....I can see I'm way behind the times.
Oh, I'm SO going to use WOOFS! That made me laugh.
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My hometown actually celebrates Salmon Days!
Congrats to you and Fabian below! We're mere pikers here with only 30 years under our belts.
May I say that you are a beauty? Because you are!!
I used to have a seagull boss. He would literally fly in from out of town for one day. I love that list.
michele sent me, but I come around pretty often on my own.
I loved all these.
Yours sincerely,
404
I think I'm having a 404 moment. I just commented and it's not here.
Hi Judy- Michele sent me back again today. Enjoy the fourth!
Hi Judy
I'm here from Michele's Meet and greet.
Happy 4th of July to you
heh heh. enjoyed
Oh, how I love words and play on words. Terrific post, Kenju! So interesting. :D
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