this was posted on the multiplay forums and i had a good laugh at it so i thought u lot might like it.
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.
SITCOMs:
Single Income, Two Children, One Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one stops working to stay home with the kids.
STRESS PUPPY:
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and hiny.
SWIPEOUT:
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the 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. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
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 meant 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.
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.
WOOFS:
Well Off Older Folks.
CROP DUSTING:
Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust that leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.
Good one Sheepy some gems in there :lol:
as i said i cant take credit i lifted them from the multiplay forums
KLONG - A sudden rush of shit to the heart - typically the feeling you get when you thought you'd gotten away with $DODGY_BEHAVIOUR and a work colleague says "$BOSS_NAME wants to see you about $DODGY_BEHAVIOUR in his office now!"
OPTICAL CONCUSSION - what you get when you look at a crappy website designed with Micro$hite Fronpage.
OSTEO-INERTIA - Bone idleness.