Office Lingo In The Age Of The Internet
Posted: 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
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
