Saturday, January 26, 2008

Crossword puzzle 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, 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.

CROP DUSTING
Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.

MOUSE POTATO The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.

SITCOM 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.

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 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 Brittney Spears meltdown was a prime example - Michael Jackson, another…but soon they develop into...

TURNOFFABILITY Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying to the point that you turn off the media device at the sound or glimpse of the spectacle. O.J. Simpson is one...Rosanne Barr...Rosie O'Donnell...Jessie Jackson

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

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.

404 Someone who’s clueless. >From the World Wide Web error Message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested site 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, and subdivisions.

OHNOSECOND That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an
e-mail by mistake)

WOOFS Well-Off Older Folks.

Stolen from another blog and added to.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hilarious!