NEW WORDS FOR 2004
Essential additions for the Work 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.

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.

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being
stressed out and whiney.

SWIPEOUT: 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: Entertainment and media spectacles that
are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop
watching them. The O.J. trials were 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.


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.

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, then enjoying the sounds of dismay
and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.