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HERE are some new words essential for the workplace vocabulary:
1. 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. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
5. 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.
6. MOUSE POTATO: The online, wired generation's answer to the couch
potato.
7. 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.
8. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
9. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless
because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
10. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from
one'sworkplace.
11. 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.
12. ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organisational 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.
13. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error
message "404 Not Found", meaning that the requested document could
not be located.
14. OH NO SECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise
that you've just made a BIG mistake.
15. WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
16. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through Cube
Farm.