Thursday, August 11, 2005
Improve your Vocabulary
This is a total cheater blog. I generally try to avoid mass-copy-pasting-syndrome, especially since it's likely to violate SOMEONE's copyright... but this is just funny:
Essential New Words for 2005 editions for 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 yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working
to stay home with the kids.
STRESS PUPPY-- A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.
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.)
OHNOSECOND-- That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
WOOFies-- Well Off Older Folks
CROP DUSTING-- Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust-- leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.
Essential New Words for 2005 editions for 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 yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working
to stay home with the kids.
STRESS PUPPY-- A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.
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.)
OHNOSECOND-- That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
WOOFies-- Well Off Older Folks
CROP DUSTING-- Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust-- leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.
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