Gin
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:36 AM
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New workplace vocabulary for 04.."Prairie dogging"..been there..done that. |
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Edited on Wed Jun-09-04 09:37 AM by Gin
NEW WORDS FOR 2004 - Essential additions for the workplace 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 whiny
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 Anna Nicole show is a prime example. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found, " meaning that the requested document could not be located.
GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, 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
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burythehatchet
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:45 AM
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1. Could be a geographical difference but prarie dogging |
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refers to the activity taking place in one's ass when one is frantically searching for a toilet.
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Wed Jun-09-04 09:47 AM
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Edited on Wed Jun-09-04 09:50 AM by pagerbear
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Sporadicus
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Wed Jun-09-04 11:37 AM
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3. I Read a Few of These Last Night |
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in the latest issue of Esquire. The complete list is hilarious!
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Wed Jun-09-04 11:45 AM
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4. If I may be so bold as to add a couple I've heard: |
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Screen-saver mode - when someone is staring vacantly into space aka 100yd stare.
SINBAD - Single Income, Nae Bird And Desperate.
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Wed Jun-09-04 11:52 AM
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5. I had a periscope in the last cube where I was so happily employed |
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Wed Jun-09-04 11:54 AM
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6. A lot of those aren't really "new"... |
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for example I've heard the term "prairie-dogging" for years.
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Wed Jun-09-04 06:32 PM
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7. Ayup. And I've been hearing/using 404 for a clueless person |
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Wed Jun-09-04 06:43 PM
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Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food malls, strip joints, ...
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