Essential New Words for 2006 for the Workplace Vocabulary

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

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

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

4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

11. 404: Someone who's clueless (from the WWW error message "404 Not Found," meaning the requested document could not be located.)

12. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

13. WOOFies: Well Off Older Folks

14. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing wind while walking through a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust -leads to PRAIRIEDOGGING.