Glad you liked that one RT! Lets try this one:
The latest terms to add to your vocabulary in the Y2K office environment:
* Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise,
craps over everything and then leaves.
* Salmon day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming
upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
* Chainsaw consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the
employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.
* CLM - Career Limiting Move - Used among microserfs to describe
ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within
earshot is a serious CLM.
* 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.
* Dilberted - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived
from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip
character. "I've been dilberted again. The old man revised the specs
for the fourth time this week."
* Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of
planning to leave the company or department soon.
* 404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error
message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could
not be located. Used as in: "Don't bother asking him ... he's 404, man."
* Generica - Features of the American landscape that are exactly the
same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls,
subdivisions. Used as in: "We were so lost in generica that I forgot
what city we were in.
* Ohno-second - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
that you've just made a BIG mistake.
* Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of
an electronic device to get it to work again.
* Umfriend - A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed
intimate relationship, as in "This is , my ... um ... friend."
* Cube Farm: An office filled with cubicles.
* Idea Hamsters: People who always seem to have their idea generators
running.
* Mouse Potato: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
potato.