Essential new vocabulary for the workplace
Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
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, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
Swipeout: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
Xerox subsidy: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
Irritainment: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big mistake.
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, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
Swipeout: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
Xerox subsidy: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
Irritainment: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big mistake.
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