OFFICE LINGO IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET
Blamestorming - sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline
was missed or a project failed and who was responsible
Body Nazis - hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look
down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively
Chainsaw consultant - an outside expert brought in toreduce the
employee headcount, leaving the top brass withclean hands
Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles
Ego surfing - scanning the Net, databases, print media, andso on,
looking for references to one's own name
Elvis year - the peak year of something's popularity-Barney the
dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993.
404 - someone who is clueless, from the World Wide Weberror message
"404 Not Found", meaning the requesteddocument couldn't be
located-Don't bother asking him,he's 404.
Idea hamsters - people who always seem to have their ideagenerators
running
Mouse potato - the on-line generation's answer to the couchpotato
Ohnosecond - that minuscule fraction of time in which yourealize
you've just made a big mistake
Prairie dogging - something loud happens in a cube farm,and people's
heads pop up over the walls to see what'sgoing on
SITCOM - stands for Single Income, Two Children, OppressiveMortgage
Stress puppy - a person who thrives on being stressed-outand whiny
Tourists - those who take training classes justto take a vacation from
their jobs-"We had three seriousstudents in the class; the rest were
tourists."
Uninstalled - euphemism for being fired
Xerox subsidy - euphemism for swiping free photocopies froma
workplace-