Thursday, September 22, 2005

New words for the workplace!

TESTICULATING
Waving your arms around and talking B@llocks.


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, sh1ts on everyone,
and then leaves.


ASSMOSIS.
The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement
by sucking 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.


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 that's going on. (This also
applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)


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 or start a "home business".


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


PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
The fine art of whacking the sh1t out of an electronic device to
get it to work again.


ADMINISPHERE.
The rarefied organisational 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.

This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" needless
paperwork and processes.


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 realise that you've
just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')

5 comments:

  1. These are great! I've had some experience with seagull managers... that one rocks!

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  2. I've heard other versions of Prairie Doggin'. Turtle Head poppin in and out as you run to the water closet.

    What's the term for sitting at your desk, still pretty fucked up from last night, wishing you could force out a dump then lay down for a couple of hours, drinking coffee until the fog clears from your brain, praying nobody walks in your office b/c they may smell the gates of hell fart that just burned a hole in your chair? Any suggestions?

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  3. I believe it's called "work"

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  4. Prairie Dogging is a good laugh, but where's Chili Dogging?

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