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Good
morning <$firstname$>,
Here's
a little laugh for you on a Monday morning : if you are
working in an office and are not familiar with the following
vocabulary, you are seriously out of touch.
I
found it on business coach Philip
Humbert's eNewsletter TIPS a while ago, have fun
:
BLAMESTORMING:
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
PERCUSSIVE
MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of
an electronic device to get it to work again.
SEAGULL
MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise,
craps on everything, and then leaves.
SALMON
DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming
upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
MOUSE
POTATO: The online, wired generation's answer to the
couch potato.
ASSMOSIS:
The process by which some people seem to absorb success
and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working
hard
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.
SITCOMs:
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.
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
magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
XEROX
SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from
one's workplace.
IRRITAINMENT:
Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but
you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
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 site
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. (Like after hitting send
on an email by mistake).
WOOFS:
Well-Off Older Folks.
Until
next time, all the best from :
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14
May 2007 
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