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Dodgy Adverts:
How I got rich:
How you can
get rich:
Because you're
worth it:
Because I'm
worth it:
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Essential NEW WORDS
for the workplace
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- 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. (This also applies to applause from
a promotion because there maybe cake, coffee and doughnuts.)
- 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 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. 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 realize
that you've just made a BIG mistake.
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