sent via e-mail from Cass: working schleps can relate

NEW WORDS FOR 2002
Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:

1) BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2) SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
3) ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
4) SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
5) MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.
6) SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What DINKS (Dual-Income, No Kids) and yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
7) STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
8) STRESS PUPPY: person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
9) PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
10) 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.
11) OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake.