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.