"New work words

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, flaps about like a lunatic, 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.

MEERKAT MADNESS 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. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake, coffee and doughnuts.)

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 whiney.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE / SCIENTIFIC THUMP The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again

ADMINISPHERE The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the common worker. 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 realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

WOOFYS Well Off Older Folks.

COMPUTER USER NON-TECHNICAL IT helpdesk speak for a particularly annoying user (clue: it's an acronym...)"