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HCS
01-13-2007, 09:44 AM
Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere).
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.
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 couch potato.
SITCOMS:
Single income, two children, oppressive mortgage. What yuppies get
into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay
home whit 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 the fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly
inappropriate or irrelevent 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 site 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 you just made
BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).
WOOFS:
Well-Off Older Folks.
CROP DUSTING:
Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through the cube farm.

dumbandyoung
01-13-2007, 12:37 PM
I thought "PRAIRIE DOGGING" was when a shit keeps sneaking out of your ass.

HCS
01-13-2007, 03:41 PM
I thought "PRAIRIE DOGGING" was when a shit keeps sneaking out of your ass.
Better change that definition then. :D