This comes via my mother- who is forever trying to help my writing career any way possible...:)
NEW WORDS FOR 2007 :Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace(and elsewhere)!!!
1. BLAMESTORMING : Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadlinewas 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 successand advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
4. SALMON DAY : The experience of spending an entire day swimmingupstream 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 acube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's goingon.
7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couchpotato.
8. SITCOMs : Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. WhatYuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops workingto stay home with the kids.
9. STRESS PUPPY : A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out andwhiny.
10. SWIPEOUT : An ATM or credit card that has been rendered uselessbecause magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11. XEROX SUBSIDY : Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one'sworkplace.
12. IRRITAINMENT : Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoyingbut you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The J-Lo and Benwedding (or not) was a prime example - Michael Jackson, another...
13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE : The fine art of whacking the crap out of anelectronic device to get it to work again.
14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning justabove the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere areoften profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they weredesigned 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 landscape that are exactly thesame no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, andsubdivisions.
17. OHNOSECOND : That minuscule fraction of time in which you realizethat 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 a Cube Farm.
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