New words added to the dictionary For those of you who, like
me, have trouble keeping up with the ever-changing vernacular

Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb
success and advancement by kissing up to the boss.

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 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.
(my favorite)

Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce
the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.

Career Limiting Move (CLM) - Used among microserfs to
describe an 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.

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-URL Not Found," meaning that the requested web
page 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 heck
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 Bill, my
... um...friend."

Body Nazis - Hard-core exercise and weightlifting fanatics
who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.

Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.

Mouse Potato - The on-line, wired generation's answer to the
couch potato.

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.

SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and
one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
Stands for "Single Income, Two Children, And Oppressive
Mortgage".

Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient
person in an office or work group.

Yuppie Food Stamps - The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of
ATMs everywhere.  Often used when trying to split the bill
after a meal "We owe $8 each, but all anybody's got are
yuppie food stamps."