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    Definitions you may not know

    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.

    ASSMOSIS-- The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
    advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

    SALMON DAY-- The experience of spending an entire day swimming
    upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

    CUBE FARM-- An office filled with cubicles.
    :sleepy:
    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.

    MOUSE POTATO-- The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
    potato.
    :sleepy:
    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.
    help:
    STRESS PUPPY-- A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
    whiney

    PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE-- The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
    electronic device to get it to work again.

    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.

    404-- Someone who's clueless. (From the World Wide Web error message
    "404 Not Found", meaning that the requested document could not be
    located.)

    OHNOSECOND-- That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
    you've just made a BIG mistake.

    WOOFies-- Well Off Older Folks

    CROP DUSTING-- Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube
    farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust-- leads to
    PRAIRIE DOGGING. :

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    BLAMESTORMING-- Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
    Now this is sweet!

    Happens all the time

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