New words for 2005


BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
was missed or a project failed, and 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 cubicles.


PRAIRIE DOGGING - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a
cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going
on. (This also applies to applause from 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
whiny.


PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the cr*p out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.


ADMINISPHERE - The rarefied organisational 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. 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 fraction of time in which you realise that
you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')


BEER COAT - The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a
booze cruise at 3 in the morning.


BEER COMPASS - The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home
after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you
live, how you got here, and where you've come from.


JOHNNY-NO-STARS - A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical
adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from
the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.


MILLENNIUM DOMES - The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely
impressive when viewed from the outside, but there's actually nought in
there worth seeing.


MYSTERY BUS - The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while
you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the
unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when
you come back in.


MYSTERY TAXI - The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning
before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves
a 10-Pinter in your bed instead.

SALAD DODGER - An excellent phrase for an overweight person.