New Words For 2004

[Paul_D]

NEW WORDS FOR 2004 - 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, 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.

 

 

 

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.

 

 

 

XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING

[Newt]

Great stuff. LOL

 

Here are a few more that need to be on the list.

 

BAGGRAVATION, n. A feeling of annoyance and anger one endures at the airport when his bags have not arrived at the baggage carousel but everyone else's bags have [blend formed from words bag and aggravation].

Context: "Nancy couldn't help but feel baggravation as she watched other passengers get their luggage and leave the airport."

 

COMETISED - adj. used to describe Netscape when it freezes or jams. [ based on the observation of a "shooting star" or a comet (cannot really tell) that appears on the Netscape button, in the upper right corner of a Netscape browser. ]

Context: "Oh geez, Netscape is cometised."

 

F.I.N.E, adj. acronym (F*cked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional). Usually derogatory;

indicated by tone of voice.

Context: "We all know he's F.I.N.E, just like those freaks he hangs out with."

 

"GARDEN TOOL" MAMA, n. Slang. a prostitute. ["Garden tool" is a euphemism of the vulgar slang ho, which is a derivative (euphemistic respelling) of 'whore'.]

Context: She is nothing but a "garden tool" mama.

 

MEANDERTHAL, n. An annoying individual moving slowly and aimlessly in front of another individual who is in a bit of a hurry [blend formed from meander and neanderthal ].

Context: "As much as he tried, Ben could do nothing to get around the meanderthal on the narrow sidewalk."