404 - Someone who is clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 - Not Found", meaning that the requested document could not be found.
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.
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to achieve success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than by working hard.
Blamestorming - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
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.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that annoy a person but find themselves unable to stop observing them. The O. J. trials and the Florida election process were prime examples.
Mouse Potato - The online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - That miniscule fraction of time in which one realizes that one has just made a BIG mistake.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Prairie Dogging - An event that occurs when someone yells or drops something in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to find out what's going on.
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies, in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything and then leaves.
SITCOM (Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage) - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
Swiped Out - AN ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip has been worn away from excessive use.
Woofys - Well-Off Older Folks.
Xerox Subsidy - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
Yuppie Food Stamps - The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after meals. "We each owe $8 but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps."
