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Some modern definitions......
Work-place vocabulary
TESTICULATING Waving your arms around and talking ********.
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, ****s on
everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and
advancement by sucking 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.
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 that's going on.
(This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be
cake.)
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 or start a "home business".
STRESS PUPPY. A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the **** out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational 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. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia? -
needless paperwork and processes.
404. Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message
"404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
OHNOSECOND That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that
you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all') - New
GOING FOR A Mc**** Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of
buying food, you?re just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff
member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is
known as a Mc**** with Lies.
AUSSIE KISS Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.
BEER COAT The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze
cruise at 3am in the morning.
BEER COMPASS The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home
after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you
live, how you got here, and where you've come from.
BOBFOC Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch.
BREAKING THE SEAL Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of
drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the
toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.
GREYHOUND A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.
JOHNNY-NO-STARS A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical
adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the
badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to
show their level of training.
MILLENNIUM DOMES The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive
when viewed from the outside, but there's actually nought in there worth
seeing.
MONKEY BATH A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo!
Oo! Ho! Aa!Aa!Aa!".
MYSTERY BUS The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're
in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive
people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.
MYSTERY TAXI The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning
before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a
10-Pinter in your bed instead.
TESTICULATING Waving your arms around and talking ********.
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, ****s on
everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and
advancement by sucking 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.
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 that's going on.
(This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be
cake.)
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 or start a "home business".
STRESS PUPPY. A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the **** out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational 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. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia? -
needless paperwork and processes.
404. Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message
"404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
OHNOSECOND That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that
you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all') - New
GOING FOR A Mc**** Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of
buying food, you?re just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff
member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is
known as a Mc**** with Lies.
AUSSIE KISS Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.
BEER COAT The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze
cruise at 3am in the morning.
BEER COMPASS The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home
after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you
live, how you got here, and where you've come from.
BOBFOC Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch.
BREAKING THE SEAL Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of
drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the
toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.
GREYHOUND A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.
JOHNNY-NO-STARS A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical
adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the
badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to
show their level of training.
MILLENNIUM DOMES The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive
when viewed from the outside, but there's actually nought in there worth
seeing.
MONKEY BATH A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo!
Oo! Ho! Aa!Aa!Aa!".
MYSTERY BUS The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're
in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive
people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.
MYSTERY TAXI The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning
before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a
10-Pinter in your bed instead.
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