[plug] [Fwd: New Words]

[Leon Brooks]

Remo Ponta wrote:
> 
> Latest terms to add to your vocabulary for the 21st century office:
> 
>  ASSMOSIS - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
>  advancement by kissing up to the boss.
> 
>  BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline
>  was missed or project failed and who was responsible.
> 
>  SEAGULL MANAGER - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps
>  over everything, and then leaves.
> 
>  SALMON DAY - The experience of spending an entire day swimming
>  upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
> 
>  CHAINSAW CONSULTANT - An outside expert brought in to reduce the
>  employee headcount, leaving the brass with clean hands.
> 
>  CLM (CAREER LIMITING MOVE) - Used among microserfs to describe
>  ill-advised activity.  Trashing your boss while he or she is within
>  earshot is a serious CLM.
> 
>  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.
> 
>  DILBERTED - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss.  Derived from
>  the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character.
>  "I've been Dilberted again.  The old man revised the specs for the
>  fourth time this week."
> 
>  FLIGHT RISK - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning
>  to leave the company or department soon.
> 
>  404 - Someone who's clueless.  From the World Wide Web error message
>  "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be
>  located.
>  "Don't bother asking him...he's 404, man."
> 
>  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.  Usage: "We were so lost in generica that I forgot
>  what city we were in."
> 
>  OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
>  you've just made a BIG mistake.
> 
>  PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
>  electronic device to get it to work again.

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