Thread: Words & Their Meanings

petal · 19-01-2007, 02:17 PM

1. TESTICULATING Waving your arms around and talking B******s.

2. BLAMESTORMING. Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

3. SEAGULL MANAGER. A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, c***s on everything, and then leaves.

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

5. SALMON DAY. The experience of spending the entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

6. CUBE FARM. An office filled with cubicles.

7. 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. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)

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

9. 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 or start a "home business".

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

11. XEROX SUBSIDY. Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

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

13. ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational 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. This is often affiliated with the dreaded administrivia" needless paperwork and processes.

14. OHNOSECOND That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all') …

Flood · 19-01-2007, 06:22 PM

Mary, that was funny! Particularly liked number 12. I know that one well!!

lozzie · 19-01-2007, 06:36 PM

PMSL roflmao @ Mary

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19-01-2007, 02:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	Words & Their Meanings 1. TESTICULATING Waving your arms around and talking B****s. 2. BLAMESTORMING. Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. 3. SEAGULL MANAGER. A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, c*s on everything, and then leaves. 4. ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard. 5. SALMON DAY. The experience of spending the entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die. 6. CUBE FARM. An office filled with cubicles. 7. 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. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.) 8. MOUSE POTATO. The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. 9. 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 or start a "home business". 10. STRESS PUPPY. A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. 11. XEROX SUBSIDY. Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace. 12. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking an electronic device to get it to work again. 13. ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational 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. This is often affiliated with the dreaded administrivia" needless paperwork and processes. 14. OHNOSECOND That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all') …
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19-01-2007, 06:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
Flood AA SUPPORTER Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: A great place in Devon called Tiverton. Posts: 5,022 Total Awards: 4	Re: Words & Their Meanings Mary, that was funny! Particularly liked number 12. I know that one well!!

19-01-2007, 06:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
lozzie AA SUPPORTER Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: At Home Posts: 2,270 Total Awards: 3	Re: Words & Their Meanings PMSL roflmao @ Mary Loz
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