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.
Chainsaw Consultant:
An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the
brass with clean hands.
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.
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".
Ohnosecond:
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've made a CLM
(career limiting move).
Percussive Maintenance:
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work
again.
Prairie Dogging:
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a "cube farm" (an
office full of cubicles) and everyone's heads pop up over the walls to see
what's going on.
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