Modern Terminology..

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadlinewas missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, cribs 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.

CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in acube 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 DINKS(Double Income No Kids) turn into when they have children and one ofthem 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 becausethe 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 butyou find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J . trials werea prime example.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of anelectronic device to get it to work again.

ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just abovethe rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are oftenprofoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they weredesigned to solve.

404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message"404 Not Found", meaning that the requested document could not belocated.

GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the sameno matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls,subdivisions.

OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize thatyou've just made a BIG mistake. ...