New workplace vocabulary for 04.."Prairie dogging"..been there..done that.

[Gin]

NEW WORDS FOR 2004 - Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:

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.

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

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

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.

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

SWIPEOUT: 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.

IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The Anna Nicole show is a prime example.
 
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
 
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.

CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING

[burythehatchet]

1. Could be a geographical difference but prarie dogging

refers to the activity taking place in one's ass when one is frantically searching for a toilet.

[pagerbear]

2. Self delete

[Sporadicus]

3. I Read a Few of These Last Night

in the latest issue of Esquire. The complete list is hilarious!

[Guy_Montag]

4. If I may be so bold as to add a couple I've heard:

Screen-saver mode - when someone is staring vacantly into space aka 100yd stare.

SINBAD - Single Income, Nae Bird And Desperate.

[DS1]

5. I had a periscope in the last cube where I was so happily employed

:shrug:

[VelmaD]

6. A lot of those aren't really "new"...

for example I've heard the term "prairie-dogging" for years.

[SOteric]

7. Ayup. And I've been hearing/using 404 for a clueless person

for at least 5 years.

[TrogL]

8. I misred part of it

Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food malls, strip joints, ...