New Words for 2007

Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace!!!

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

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2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

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3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

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4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

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5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

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6. 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.

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7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to couch potato.

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8. DINK: Dual Income, No Kids.

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9. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

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10: WOOFS : Well-Off Older Folks.

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11. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

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12. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

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13. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

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14. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

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15. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. Often feel like doing this to my computer------
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16. ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundlyinappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
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17. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.
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18. 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.
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19. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).
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20. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a cube farm.

*Thanks for the vocabulary lesson Nancy! Lexington, Kentucky*