Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace

                  1. BLAMESTORMING : Sitting around in a group, discussing
                  why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who
                  was responsible.

                  2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot
                  of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

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

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

                  5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles

                  6. PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something
                  loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop over the
                  walls to see what's going on.

                  7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer
                  to the couch potato.

                  8. 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.

                  9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being
                  stressed out and whiny.

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

                  11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies
                  from one's workplace.

                  12. 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...

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

                  14. 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.

                  15. 404 : Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web
                  error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested
                  site could not be located.

                  16. 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.

                  17. OHNOSECOND : That minuscule fraction of time in which
                  you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like
                  after hitting send on an email by mistake)

                  18. WOOFS : Well-Off Older Folks.

                  19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while
                  passing through a Cube Farm.