Blamestorming – sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was
missed or a project failed and who was responsible
Body Nazis – hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on
anyone who doesn’t work out obsessively
Chainsaw consultant – an outside expert brought in to reduce the employee
headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands
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
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 message “404
Not Found”, meaning the requested document couldn’t be located – Don’t
bother asking him, he’s 404.
Idea hamsters – people who always seem to have their idea generators running
(like those feeding the Grif.Net)
Mouse potato – the on-line generation’s answer to the couch potato
Ohnosecond – that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you’ve
just made a big mistake
Prairie dogging – something loud happens in a cube farm, and people’s heads
pop up over the walls to see what’s going on
SITCOM – stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage
Stress puppy – a person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny
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.”
Uninstalled – euphemism for being fired
Xerox subsidy – euphemism for swiping free photocopies (and other office
supplies) from a workplace
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Dr Bob Griffin, www.grif.net
1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given