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Pastimes : Another Good Reason Not To Be Married -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gypsy who wrote (2936)	11/8/1998 12:10:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6545

While I am on a roll--and trying to lighten this thread up! Latest terms to add to your vocabulary in the late 90s office environment: Assmosis The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss. 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, shits over everything and then leaves. Salmon day The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end. Chainsaw consultant An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands. CLM Career Limiting Move - Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM. (Also known as CLB - Career Limiting Behavior) 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. Dilberted To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. “I've been dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.” Flight Risk Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon. 404 Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested document could not be located. “Don't bother asking him . . . he's 404, man.” Ohnosecond That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. Percussive Maintenance The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. Prairie Dogging When someone yells or drops something loudly in a ”cube farm” (an office full of cubicles) and everyone's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.