Cafeoutdoors.com: New Buzz Words

Buzz Words and Phrases for the 21st Century

? 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.

? CHAINSAW CONSULTANT
An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top
brass with clean hands.

? CUBE FARM
An office filled with cubicles.

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

? 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.

? STARTER MARRIAGE
A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and
no regrets.

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

? SWIPED OUT
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip
is worn away from extensive use.

? TOURISTS
People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had
three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists."

? TREEWARE
Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.

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

? CHIPS & SALSA
Chips = hardware, Salsa = software. "Well, first we gotta figure out if the
problem's in your chips or your salsa."

? PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE
The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work
again. (Try not to dent the case.)

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

? 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.

? 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."

? 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."

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