ESSENTIAL NEW WORDS FOR THE WORK-PLACE ENVIRONMENT

TESTICULATING:
Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.

BLAMESTORMING:
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed,
or a project failed, and exactly who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER:
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on
everything and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS:
The process by which people seem to absorb success and
advancement - by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY:
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream, only
to get screwed and die.

CUBE FARM:
An office filled with partitions or cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING:
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm and
peoples' heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. Also
applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.

MOUSE POTATO:
The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

SITCOMs:
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 or start a home business.

STRESS PUPPY:
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whining
all the time.

XEROX SUBSIDY:
Euphemism for nicking free photocopies from one's workplace.

PERCUSSIVE  MAINTENANCE:
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to
get it to work again.

 ADMINISPHERE:
The rarified organisational layers that start 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. This is often affiliated with the dreaded
'administrivia' - needless paperwork and processes.

404:
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message
'404 Not Found' (meaning that the requested document could not be
located).

OHNOSECOND:
That minuscule moment in time when you realise that you've just
made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've just hit 'reply all').

WOOFies:
Well Off Older Folk.

CROP  DUSTING:
Surreptitiously farting while passing through a CUBE FARM, then
enjoying the ensuing sounds of dismay and disgust. Usually leads to
PRAIRIE DOGGING.