Work Place Vocabulary
Hi ho, MMMLOGerinos!
A school friend has forwarded a fun list of new vocabulary of the workplace that you might enjoy or at least shake your head at two days out from Turkey Stuffing Your Face Day 05. I'm unfamiliar with most of the clever words and definitions as I don't exactly spend time in a "workplace" outside of my home office, for which I am VERY glad. Though the DH sallies forth daily to do battle with the blamestormers and seagull managers (he swears he isn't one and I'm obligated to believe him.)
(Source not listed on the following forwarded list.)
NEW WORDS FOR 2005: 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 aging yuppies turn into when they finally realize there's not much time left on the biological clock and so hurry and have children and then 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.
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 minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMMelinda
A school friend has forwarded a fun list of new vocabulary of the workplace that you might enjoy or at least shake your head at two days out from Turkey Stuffing Your Face Day 05. I'm unfamiliar with most of the clever words and definitions as I don't exactly spend time in a "workplace" outside of my home office, for which I am VERY glad. Though the DH sallies forth daily to do battle with the blamestormers and seagull managers (he swears he isn't one and I'm obligated to believe him.)
(Source not listed on the following forwarded list.)
NEW WORDS FOR 2005: 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 aging yuppies turn into when they finally realize there's not much time left on the biological clock and so hurry and have children and then 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.
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 minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMMelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 8:18 AM
