1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, poops on
everything, and then leaves.
3. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
4. 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.
5. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch
potato.
6. SITCOMS: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies
get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home
with the kids.
7. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.
8. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because
magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
9. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s
workplace.
10. IRRITAINMENT : Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but
you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
11. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking an out-of-order
electronic device to get it to work again. Often feel like doing this to my
computer.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
you’ve just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by
mistake).
15. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube
Farm.
Bonus: MUSHROOM MANAGER: Keeps all of their staff in the dark, periodically
dumping a load of manure on them. Whenever employees grow too big, they chop
off their heads.
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Dr Bob Griffin, www.grif.net
“Jesus knows me, this I love”