NEW WORDS OF THE 90'S
Blamestorming: sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was
missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
Chainsaw Consultant: an outside expert brought in to reduce the employee
headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
Cube Farm: an office filled with cubicles
Ohnosecond: that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
you've just made a big mistake.
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.
Xerox Subsidy: euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
Beepilepsy: the brief seizure people sometimes have when their beeper goes
off (especially in vibrator mode). Characterized by physical spasms, goofy
facial expressions and interruption of speech in mid-sentence.
Irritainment: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but
you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a
prime example.
PEBCAK: Tech support shorthand for "Problems Exists Between Chair and
Keyboard." (Techies are a frustrated, often arrogant lot. They've submitted
numerous acronyms and terms that poke fun at the clueless users who call
them up with frightenly stupid questions.
Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of whacking the living daylights out
of an electronic devise to get it to work again.