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Puns

Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere). This list was compiled in 2007, so some of the entries are a little dated, but it’s still fun and cute, and surprisingly appropriate.

  • 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.

  • ASSMOSIS

The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

  • SALMON DAY

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

  • 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 get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

  • STRESS PUPPY

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

  • SWIPEOUT

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

  • XEROX SUBSIDY

Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.

  • IRRITAINMENT

Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The J-Lo and Ben wedding (or not) was a prime example – Michael Jackson, another…

  • PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE

The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

  • 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 site 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, and subdivisions.

  • OHNOSECOND

That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an emotionally angry email to your boss by mistake).

  • WOOFS

Well-Off Older Folks.

  • CROP DUSTING

Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.

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