Latest terms to add to your vocabulary

[Navy6064]

Latest terms to add to your vocabulary in the late 90's 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 wasresponsible.

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.
(Also known as CLB - Career Limiting Behavior)

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."

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.

Prairie Dogging
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a
"cube farm" (an office full of cubicles) and everyone's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

[Turtledrive]

good ones

[SpongeJuan]

hahaha