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===NEW WORDS FOR 2003<br />
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Essential New Words for 2003 editions for the workplace vocabulary<br />
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''''BLAMESTORMING'''' -- Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was<br />
missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.<br />
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''''SEAGULL MANAGER'''' -- A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on<br />
everything and then leaves.<br />
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''''ASSMOSIS'''' -- The process by which some people seem to absorb success and<br />
advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.<br />
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''''SALMON DAY'''' -- The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream<br />
only to get screwed and die in the end.<br />
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''''CUBE FARM'''' -- An office filled with cubicles. (Such as [[XanthusInc]] :-D)<br />
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''''PRAIRIE DOGGING'''' -- When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube<br />
farm and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.<br />
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''''MOUSE POTATO'''' -- The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.<br />
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''''SITCOMs'''' -- Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies<br />
turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.<br />
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''''STRESS PUPPY'''' -- A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and<br />
whiney.<br />
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''''PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE'''' -- The fine art of whacking the crap out of an<br />
electronic device to get it to work again.<br />
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''''ADMINISPHERE'''' -- The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the<br />
rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often<br />
profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed<br />
to solve.<br />
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''''404'''' -- Someone who's clueless. (From the World Wide Web error message "404<br />
Not Found", meaning that the requested document could not be located.)<br />
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''''OHNOSECOND'''' -- That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that<br />
you've just made a BIG mistake.<br />
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''''WOOFies'''' -- Well Off Older Folks<br />
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''''CROP DUSTING'''' -- Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube farm,<br />
then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust -- leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING<br />
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