Brand New Terms! Soon to be added to dictionaries!
Here are the latest terms to add
to your vocabulary in the late
90s office environment:
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, poops over everything and
then leaves.
Salmon Day
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get
screwed and die in the end.
Chainsaw Consultant
An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving
the 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 (Also known as CLB - Career Limiting Behavior).
Adminisphere
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and
file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profound and
inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Dilberted
To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the
experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character.
"I've been dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth
time this week."
Flight Risk
Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the
company or department soon.
404
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not
Found", meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't
bother asking him, he's 404, man."
Ohnosecond
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that 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
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a "cube farm" (an office
full of cubicles) and everyone's heads pop up over the walls to see
what's going on.
Assmosis
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement
by kissing up to the boss.
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