Workplace vocabulary!!!
Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 1:45 pm
Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary
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>BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
>missed or a project failed, and who was responsible and how to string
>them up for it
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>SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on
>everything, and then leaves.
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>ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
>advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
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>SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream
>only to get screwed and die in the end.
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>CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
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>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.
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>SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, and Oppressive Mortgage. What
>yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working
>to stay home with the kids.
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>PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the poop out of an
>electronic device to get it to work again.
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>OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time - smaller than a nanosecond
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>which you realize that you've just screwed up in a big way.
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>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.
***My boss is definitely a seagull manager!!!***
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>BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
>missed or a project failed, and who was responsible and how to string
>them up for it
>
>
>
>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.
>
>
>
>SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, and Oppressive Mortgage. What
>yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working
>to stay home with the kids.
>
>
>
>PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the poop out of an
>electronic device to get it to work again.
>
>
>
>OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time - smaller than a nanosecond
>-
>in
>which you realize that you've just screwed up in a big way.
>
>
>
>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.
***My boss is definitely a seagull manager!!!***
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