> New Words
>
> BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
> missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
>
> 2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on
> everything, and then leaves.
>
> 3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
> advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
>
> 4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only
> to get screwed and die in the end.
>
> 5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
>
> 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.
>
> 7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
>
> 8. 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.
>
> 9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
>
> 10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because
> magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
>
> 11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
>
> 12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you
> find yourself unable to stop watching them.
>
> 13. 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------
>
> 14. ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the
> rank and file. Decisions t hat fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly
> inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
>
> 15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not
> Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.
>
> 16. GENERICA: Features of the American landscapes that are exactly the
> same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and
> subdivisions.
>
> 17. 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).
>
> 18. WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
>
> 19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through the
> work area of others.
>
