Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
--BLAMESTORMING
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A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
--SEAGULL MANAGER |
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
--ASSMOSIS |
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
--SALMON DAY |
An office filled with cubicles.
--CUBE FARM |
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.
--PRAIRIE DOGGING |
The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
--MOUSE POTATO
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Surreptitiously farting while passing through a Cube Farm.
-- CROP DUSTING |
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.
--STRESS PUPPY |
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
--SWIPEOUT |
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace copy machine.
--XEROX SUBSIDY |
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.
--SITCOMs |
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
--PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE
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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.
--ADMINISPHERE |
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
--404 |
Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
--GENERICA |
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
--OHNOSECOND |
Well-Off Older Folks.
--WOOFS |
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