Guest guest Posted March 27, 2002 Report Share Posted March 27, 2002 > > To all the WOOFS and those striving to become WOOFS > > 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. > > 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) 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 irritable and whiny. > > SWIPED OUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the > magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. > > ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and > advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard. > > PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of an > electronic device to get it to work again. > > VULCAN NERVE PINCH: The taxing hand position required to reach all the > appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the arm reboot for a > Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control Key, the > Command Key, the > Return Key, and the Power On key. > > YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS: The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. > Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal, " We each owe $8, but > all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps. " > > SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only > to get screwed and die in the end. > > 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 document 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,subdivisions. > > OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've > just made a BIG mistake. > > WOOFS: Well Off Older Folks. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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