posted on June 5, 2008 09:45:38 AM new
1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2.SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps
on everything, and then leaves.
3.ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard
4.SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream
only to get screwed and die in the end.
5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.
6.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.
7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
potato.
8.SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What
Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working
to stay home with the kids.
9.STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.
10.SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless
because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11.XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
workplace.
12.IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying
but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.
14. 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.
15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message
'404 Not Found,' meaning that the requested site could not be located.
16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the
same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and
subdivisions.
17.OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by
mistake).
18.WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a
Cube Farm.
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget
what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
posted on June 5, 2008 12:13:28 PM new
Loved those, Roady! Thanks
"people will never forget how you made them feel
Odd; the `people' I know take responsibility for their own feelings, like adults, and don't sit around whining about how someone made them feel"
There are some people who cheer up a room as soon as they walk into it. They are kind, up-beat, interesting. We just love to be around them. Perhaps the meaning of this quote is positive feelings, not negative.
posted on June 5, 2008 05:39:14 PM newThere are some people who cheer up a room as soon as they walk into it. They are kind, up-beat, interesting. We just love to be around them. Perhaps the meaning of this quote is positive feelings, not negative.
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