NEW WORDS FOR 2007
Long time no post....But the spam goes on...
Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!!
1. BLAMESTORMING
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2.SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
3.ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard .
4.SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
5. CUBE FARM An office filled with cubicles.
6.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
7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
8.SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
9.STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
10.SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11.XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
12.IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
14. 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.
15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site coul d not be located.
16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
17.OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).
18.WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.
posted by Greg Stewart @ 12:15 PM
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1 Comments:
Greg,
You left a comment on one of my blogs a while ago. Thank you. I'm an old geezer that doesn't always pay attention. I've been a dedicated Mason for nearly 50 years. A quick scan of your blogs is fascinating. I will now make some hard copies to read further.
Frankly, I've been looking for someone to argue with about Freemasonry, cultural ideas, historical roots and etc. Discuss is probably a better word than argue.
Right now I am attempting to understand Islam and how so many Muslims can be led so far off the path. What is it in their religious experience that enables the radical faction to brutalize humanity.
It is my preconceived notion that Islam has always been a dysfunctional belief system just waiting for the opportunity to dominate the rest of us. In my limited experience all modern religions essentially follow the golden rule. They are all trying in different ways to give direction, aid, and comfort to their believers.
Radical Islam is an aberation. In fact it does not, in my book, qualify as a religion at all. Radical Islam is an intolerant, murderous sect of Muslims who have (somehow) fallen for their evil ideas.
Why?
Have they no backbone? Didn't their parents try to teach them right and wrong? Isn't is rather basic for human beings to want life? How is the concept of ritual murder taught? How can anyone think that killing another person will guaranty paradise for them?
Anyway Greg, I look forward to reading your stuff.
Dixon Webb
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