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Blamestorming
|
sitting around in a group
discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was
responsible |
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Body Nazis |
hard-core exercise and
weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out
obsessively |
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Chainsaw consultant |
an outside expert brought in to
reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands |
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Cube farm |
an office filled with cubicles |
| Ego
surfing |
scanning the Net, databases,
print media, and so on, looking for references to one's own name |
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Elvis year |
the peak year of something's
popularity -- Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993. |
| 404 |
someone who is clueless, from
the World Wide Web error messag "404 Not Found", meaning the requested
document couldn't be located -- Don't bother asking him,
he's 404. |
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Idea hamsters |
people who always seem to have
their idea generators running |
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Mouse potato |
the on-line generation's answer
to the couch potato |
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Ohnosecond |
that minuscule fraction of time
in which you realize you've just made a big mistake |
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Prairie dogging
|
something loud happens in a cube
farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on |
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SITCOM |
stands for Single Income, Two
Children, Oppressive Mortgage |
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Stress puppy |
a person who thrives on being
stressed-out and whiny |
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Tourists |
those who take training classes
just to take a vacation from their jobs -- "We had three serious
students in the class; the rest were tourists." |
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Uninstalled |
euphemism for being fired |
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Xerox subsidy |
euphemism for swiping free
photocopies from a workplace |
