My favourite term that I use is: ADMINISTRIVIA
All the stupid time wasting stuff that you get asked to do because someone thinks that it's trendy or their management handbook says that you should do it. Simon ----------------------------------------------------------------- Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 >-----Original Message----- >From: SUPRIYA MISRA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:40 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: TGIF > > >NEW WORDS FOR 2002 - >Essential additions 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, 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. > >PRARIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something >loudly in a cube farm, and peoples' 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 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 ones workplace. > >IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that >are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop >watching them. The O. J. trials were a prime example. > >PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the >shit out of an electronic device to get it to work >again. > >ADMINSPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers >beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions >that fall from the adminsphere are often profoundly >inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were >designed to solve. > >404: Someone who's clueless. From the WorldWideWeb >error message "404 Not Found", meaning that the >requested document 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 that you've just made a BIG mistake. > >WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks. > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. >http://www.hotmail.com > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
