Office Lingo In The Age Of The Internet

Meggie · Post by **Meggie** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:26 pm

OFFICE LINGO IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET

Blamestorming - sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible

Body Nazis - hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively

Chainsaw consultant - an outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands

Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles

Ego surfing - scanning the Net, databases, print media, and so on, looking for references to one's own name

Elvis year - the peak year of something's popularity -- Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993.

404 - someone who is clueless, from the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found", meaning the requested document couldn't be located -- Don't bother asking him, he's 404.

Idea hamsters - people who always seem to have their idea generators running

Mouse potato - the on-line generation's answer to the couch potato

Ohnosecond - that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big mistake

Prairie dogging - something loud happens in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on

SITCOM - stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage

Stress puppy - a person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny

Tourists - those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs -- "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists."

Uninstalled - euphemism for being fired

Xerox subsidy - euphemism for swiping free photocopies from a workplace

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:33 pm

Originally posted by Meggie
OFFICE LINGO IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNETPrairie dogging - something loud happens in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on

LOL..that one cracks me up.

lonewolfz28 · Post by **lonewolfz28** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 10:20 pm

Good stuff Meggie!

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 10:21 pm

I REFUSE TO EVER USE "404"!!!

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:27 am

Originally posted by Meggie
OFFICE LINGO IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET

Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles

404 - someone who is clueless, from the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found", meaning the requested document couldn't be located -- Don't bother asking him, he's 404.

Mouse potato - the on-line generation's answer to the couch potato

Ohnosecond - that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big mistake

Prairie dogging - something loud happens in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on

Uninstalled - euphemism for being fired

awesome HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAA

bigswing · Post by **bigswing** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:49 am

Prairie Dogging!!!!!

That is a classic!!!

We are still laughing in the office.

p2ii · Post by **p2ii** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 12:59 pm

Stress puppy - a person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny

How many of these does everyone know?

The_Lurker · Post by **The_Lurker** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 1:06 pm

BOY !! the "ohnosecond" works in so many other situations as well.......like between me and my wife. i have had the ohnosecond moments lots O' times !!

Meggie · Post by **Meggie** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 4:56 pm

Originally posted by The_Lurker
BOY !! the "ohnosecond" works in so many other situations as well.......like between me and my wife. i have had the ohnosecond moments lots O' times !!

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