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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 stressed out
and whiny.

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

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

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

IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying
but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials
were a prime example. Bill Clinton's shameful video Grand Jury
testimony is another.

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.

WOOFYS:  Well Off Older Folks


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