> 90's Office Vocabulary
> 
> Latest terms to add to your vocabulary in the late 90s office
environment:
> 
> Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb
success and
> advancement by kissing up to the boss.
> 
> 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, shits
over
> everything and then leaves.
> 
> Salmon day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming
upstream
only
> to get screwed and die in the end.
> 
> Chainsaw consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the
employee
head
> count, leaving the brass with clean hands.
> 
> 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."
> 
> Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of
planning to
> leave the company or department soon.
> 
> 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."
> 
> Generica - Features of the American landscape that are exactly the
same
no
> matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
Used
> as in "We were so lost in generica that I forgot what city we were in."
> 
> Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
you've
> just made a BIG mistake.
> 
> Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
> electronic device to get it to work again.
> 
> Umfriend - A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed
intimate
> relationship, as in "This is Dyan, my ... um ... friend.

later Talon
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