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Defining 2007

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, craps on everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the
boss rather than working hard .

SALMON DAY
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream, only to get screwed and die in the end.

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.

MOUSE POTATO
The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

SITCOMs
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. [This is what Yuppies get into when they
have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.]

STRESS PUPPY
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

SWIPEOUT
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because 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.

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

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.

404
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found,"
meaning that the requested site could not be located.

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.

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).

WOOFS
Well-Off Older Folks.

CROP DUSTING
Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.