whatcha think? new words for 2006

[wildhorses]

> >>Essential additions to 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 J-Lo and Ben
wedding
> >>(or not) was a prime example.
> >>
> >>PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
> >>electronic device to get it to work again.
> >>
> >>ADMINISPHERE: 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.
> >>
> >>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, and
> >>subdivisions.
> >>
> >>OHNOSECOND: That miniscule fraction of time in which you realize that
> >>you've just made a BIG mistake.
> >>
> >>WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
> >>
> >>CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a Cube Farm

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. ...

:rofl::rofl:

[wildhorses]

7. my sentiments persactly

[GOPisEvil]

2. That list has been around a while, but crop dusting is a new one for me!

:rofl:

[wildhorses]

8. added one have they?

what will "they" inthink of next?

[Tallison]

3. "Disspicable"

:shrug:

[wildhorses]

9. absitively posolutely

[trof]

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[wildhorses]

6. thanks for the link...

did not know such a thing existed....the stuff I learn on this site...:yourock:

[bridgit]

5. i am trending toward generalmentlized concurancimonium...

:D

[wildhorses]

10. trending in that directment meownself...

:rofl: