[GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] Office Vocabulary

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

This is absolutely great!
My favorite is the Yuppie Food Stamps, but a GOOD Job comes in a close 2nd. 
And I live in Generica.
I can use several of these words on a near daily basis!
What a great list GCFL is!
Jeanene

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Subject: [GCFL.net] Office Vocabulary


> Latest terms to add to your vocabulary at the office:
>
> 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, messes up everything, and then leaves.
>
> Blowing Your Buffer - Losing your train of thought.
>
> Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce
> the employee headcount, leaving the brass with clean hands.
>
> CLM (Career-Limiting Move) - Used among microserfs to
> describe ill-advised activity, e.g., trashing your boss
> while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
>
> Depotphobia - Fear associated with entering a Costco or
> Kmart because of how much money one might spend. Electronics
> geeks experience Shackophobia, Tandyagonia, or Circuit
> Cityatosis.
>
> 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-a-cubicle 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, or housing development subdivisions.
> Used as in "We were so lost in Generica that I forgot what
> city we were in."
>
> GOOD ("Get-Out-Of-Debt") Job - A well-paying job people will
> take to pay off their debts, which they will quit as soon as
> they are solvent again.
>
> Keyboard Plaque - The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud
> found on computer keyboards.
>
> 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
> daylights out of an electronic device to get it to work
> again.
>
> Prairie Dogging - When someone yells or drops something
> loudly in a "cube farm" (an office full of cubicles) and all
> the co-workers' heads pop up over the walls to see what's
> going on.
>
> Telephone Number Salary - A salary (or project budget) that
> has seven digits.
>
> Umfriend - A relationship of dubious standing or a concealed
> intimate relationship, as in "This is Dale,
> my...um...friend."
>
> Yuppie Food Stamps - The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of
> ATMs everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill
> after a meal: "We owe $8 each, but all anybody's got are
> yuppie food stamps."