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i think you are right something completely different
would be a welcome break.
and this is a good one to take a break on.
--- Elizabeth Thiers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And now for something completely different..
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> (a classic email)
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> Subject: 2003 Edition Workplace Vocabulary
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> Essential NEW WORDS FOR 2003 editions of the
> workplace vocabulary :
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> >
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> 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 whiney.
>
> XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free
> photocopies from one's workplace.
>
> 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 document could
> not be located.
>
> OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which
> you realize that you've
> just made a BIG mistake.
>
> CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing
> thru a cube farm,
> then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust;
> leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING
>
> STRESS MASTER: A person who thrives on causing
> stress in their co-workers.
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