Workplace vocabulary!!!

#1 Postby **bfez1** » 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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Guest · #2 Postby **Guest** » Wed May 07, 2003 1:51 pm

LOL = I think I have experience all of them in my 17 years of working in the real world.

Patricia

#3 Postby **coriolis** » Wed May 07, 2003 4:10 pm

That's good bfez!

Southernmost Weather · #4 Postby **Southernmost Weather** » Wed May 07, 2003 4:40 pm

Those are absolutely great!!! Do you know "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams? Sounds like many of the things that prompted him to creat the comic strip. I know I've worked with Seagull Manager. My last gig in the corporate world definitely had an "adminisphere!"

Pro-Storm · #5 Postby **Pro-Storm** » Wed May 07, 2003 5:14 pm

I do construction....work-place vocabulary on my job??? We don't wanna go there!! :38:

JCT777 · #6 Postby **JCT777** » Thu May 08, 2003 8:25 am

Bfez - that is too funny! I do the Prarie Dogging thing all the time! :lol:

#7 Postby **pojo** » Thu May 08, 2003 12:10 pm

that was hilarious!!!

mf_dolphin · #8 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Thu May 08, 2003 12:40 pm

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

Hey! I'm in IT...don't give away all our secrets! ;-)

weatherlover427 · #9 Postby **weatherlover427** » Thu May 08, 2003 7:49 pm

LOL, good stuff.

breeze · #10 Postby **breeze** » Thu May 08, 2003 7:54 pm

LoL...been there....done that....bought the t-shirt! :lol:

Hilarious!

Workplace vocabulary!!!

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