> Latest terms to add to your vocabulary: > > Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and > advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard. > > 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. > > Blowing your buffer - Losing your train of thought. > > Salmon day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming > upstream only to get screwed in the end. > > CLM - Career-limiting move - Used among microserfs to describe > ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within > earshot is a serious CLM. > > 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 soon. > > 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." > > Keyboard Plaque - The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on > computer keyboards. > > Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that > you've just made a BIG mistake. > > 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.