I seem to remember seeing some of these before, but not all.

From: R.P.

Essential New Words for 2006 for the workplace vocabulary

1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a
deadline was
missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager/director 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
success and
advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming
upstreamonly 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 a cube
farm and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
potato.

8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What
yuppiesturn into when they have children and one of them stops
working to stay
home with the kids.

9. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out
of an
electronic device to get it to work again.

10. 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
designedto solve.

11. 404: Someone who's clueless (from the WWW error message "404 Not
Found," meaning the requested document could not be located.)

12. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you
realize that
you've just made a BIG mistake.

13. WOOFies: Well Off Older Folks

14. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing wind while walking
through a cube
farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust < leads to
PRAIRIEDOGGING.

--
Tamara P Duvall                            http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA     (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)

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