CARLSON-JET
04-11-2007, 10:48 AM
404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide
Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the
requested site could not be located.
WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
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.
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.
SITCOM's: 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.
SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered
useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
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.
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.
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).
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success
and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard .
:) :) :D
Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the
requested site could not be located.
WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
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.
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.
SITCOM's: 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.
SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered
useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
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.
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.
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).
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success
and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard .
:) :) :D