New Words for 2005

[Darby]

Essential NEW WORDS FOR 2005 editions for the work-place vocabulary:
TESTICULATING - Waving your arms around and talking Boll**ks.
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 people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking 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.
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 that's going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)
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 or start a "home business".
STRESS PUPPY - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
XEROX SUBSIDY - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
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. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" needless paperwork and processes.
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 realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').
WOOFies - Well Off Older Folk.
CROP DUSTING - Surreptitiously farting while passing through a CUBE FARM, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Love 'em to bits!

[janet]

Like it.

[WillowTheWhisp]

PRAIRIE DOGGING - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)

Whenever I see this happen in future I will always know what to call it. Visions of little merekats at work within the cubicles.


STRESS PUPPY - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

For those of you who watched, this has to be the perfect description of Nat In "I'm a Celebrity"

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

I know someone who does this accompanied by lyrics along the lines of "work you B!"

OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').

I remember the classic one - seeing the car keys in the boot in that fraction of a second after slamming down the lid and just before it hits and locks.

[Fearon1]

what about bouncebackability lol

[Acrylic-bob]

I like "Mouse Potato". I'm definately one of those.

[Margaret Pilkington]

This list of words almost makes me wish I was back at work......I said ALMOST !

[lettie]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

This list of words almost makes me wish I was back at work......I said ALMOST !

No list of words would make me want to be at work, and I've about another 19 years to go and that's only if they let me go at 55

[Margaret Pilkington]

Ooooh Lettie, you poor thing.....I have been out of the system for 2 years now and I don't miss it one little bit.......I got out at 55....life is for living and I sure have done some of that this past 2 years

[WillowTheWhisp]

Can we include "misunderestimate" ?

I know it was a gaffe but there something about the word which won't accept substitutes.

[Mik Dickinson]

I'm with Fearon on this one.Support Soccer AM all the way at least they mentioned Accrington Stanley