Koolguy
March 18th, 2001, 01:34
NEW WORDS FOR THE 00's
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.
CHAINSAW CONSULTANT
An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving
the top brass with clean hands.
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.
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.
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.
SQUIRT THE BIRD
To transmit a signal to a satellite.
STARTER MARRIAGE
A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no
property and no regrets.
STRESS PUPPY
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
SWIPED OUT
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic
strip is worn away from extensive use.
TOURISTS
People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs.
"We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.
TREEWARE
Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
XEROX SUBSIDY
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
GOING POSTAL
Euphemism for being totally stressed out,for losing it. Makes reference
to the unfortunate track record of postal employees who have snapped and
gone on shooting rampages.
ALPHA GEEK
The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or
workgroup.
ASSMOSIS
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement
by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
CHIPS & SALSA
Chips = hardware, Salsa = software. "Well, first we gotta figure out if
the problem's in your chips or your salsa.
FLIGHT RISK
Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a
company or department soon.
GOOD JOB
A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" Job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay
off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
IRRITAINMENT
Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find
your-self unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime
example. Bill Clinton's shameful video Grand Jury testimony is another.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE
The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it
to work again.
UNINSTALLED
Euphemism for being fired. Heard on the voice-mail of a Vice-President at a
downsizing computer firm: "You have reached the number of an Uninstalled
Vice President. Please dial our main number and ask the operator for
assistance. *(Syn: decruitment.)
VULCAN NERVE PINCH
The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for
certain commands. For instance, the arm re-boot for a Mac II computer
involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command Key, the
Return Key, and the Power On key.
YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS
The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. Often used when
trying to split the bill after a meal, "We each owe $8, but all anybody's
got are yuppie food stamps."
SALMON DAY
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get
screwed and die in the end.
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 organisational 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."
404
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not
Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "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."
OHNOSECOND
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just
made a BIG mistake.
UMFRIEND
A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate
relationship, as in "This is Dylan, my ... um ... friend.
..post yours..
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.
CHAINSAW CONSULTANT
An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving
the top brass with clean hands.
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.
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.
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.
SQUIRT THE BIRD
To transmit a signal to a satellite.
STARTER MARRIAGE
A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no
property and no regrets.
STRESS PUPPY
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
SWIPED OUT
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic
strip is worn away from extensive use.
TOURISTS
People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs.
"We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.
TREEWARE
Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
XEROX SUBSIDY
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
GOING POSTAL
Euphemism for being totally stressed out,for losing it. Makes reference
to the unfortunate track record of postal employees who have snapped and
gone on shooting rampages.
ALPHA GEEK
The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or
workgroup.
ASSMOSIS
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement
by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
CHIPS & SALSA
Chips = hardware, Salsa = software. "Well, first we gotta figure out if
the problem's in your chips or your salsa.
FLIGHT RISK
Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a
company or department soon.
GOOD JOB
A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" Job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay
off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
IRRITAINMENT
Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find
your-self unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime
example. Bill Clinton's shameful video Grand Jury testimony is another.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE
The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it
to work again.
UNINSTALLED
Euphemism for being fired. Heard on the voice-mail of a Vice-President at a
downsizing computer firm: "You have reached the number of an Uninstalled
Vice President. Please dial our main number and ask the operator for
assistance. *(Syn: decruitment.)
VULCAN NERVE PINCH
The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for
certain commands. For instance, the arm re-boot for a Mac II computer
involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command Key, the
Return Key, and the Power On key.
YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS
The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. Often used when
trying to split the bill after a meal, "We each owe $8, but all anybody's
got are yuppie food stamps."
SALMON DAY
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get
screwed and die in the end.
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 organisational 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."
404
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not
Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "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."
OHNOSECOND
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just
made a BIG mistake.
UMFRIEND
A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate
relationship, as in "This is Dylan, my ... um ... friend.
..post yours..