LadyFish
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Some new words for you to learn.<br />BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a<br />deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.<br /><br />SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps<br />on everything, and then leaves.<br /><br />ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and<br />advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.<br /><br />SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream<br />only to get screwed and die in the end.<br /><br />CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.<br /><br />PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube<br />farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.<br /><br />MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the<br />couch potato.<br /><br />SITCOMS: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.<br />What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them<br />stops working to stay home with the kids.<br /><br />STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out<br />and whiney.<br /><br />SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because<br />the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.<br /><br />XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from<br />one's workplace.<br /><br />IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but<br />you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a<br />prime example.<br /><br />PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an<br />electronic device to get it to work again.<br /><br />ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just<br />above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are<br />often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they<br />were designed to solve.<br /><br />404: Someone who's clueless. >From the World Wide Web error<br />message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not<br />be located.<br /><br /> GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the<br />same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls,<br />subdivisions..<br /><br />OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that<br />you've just made a BIG mistake.<br /><br />WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.<br /><br />CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm,<br />then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust.
