New Words for 2008 . . .

[Kathryn41 3,205]

NEW WORDS FOR 2008

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, 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. That

Yuppies get into when they have children, and one of them stops working

to stay home, with the kids.

9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and

whiny.

10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless

because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies, from one's

workplace.

12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying,

but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the ####### out of an

electronic device to get it to work again.

14. ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just

above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the admonisher are

often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were

designed to solve.

15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message

'404 Not Found,' meaning that the requested site, could not be located.

16. 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.

17.OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize,

that you've just made a BIG MISTAKE. (Like after hitting send on an

email, by mistake).

18. WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING Surreptitiously passing gas, while passing through a

Cube Farm.

[Scott & Lai 12]

Those are from before 2008....I've seen most or all of them for a few years now, always presented as new for the current year.

They are funny though