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My brother sent me these office concepts/terms:

  1. blamestorming: A group process where participants analyze a failed project and look for scapegoats other than themselves.
  2. Death by Tweakage: When a product or project fails due to unnecessary tinkering or too many last-minute revisions.
  3. BMWs: Bitchers, Moaners and Whiners.
  4. clockroaches: Employees who spend most of their day watching the clock – instead of doing their jobs
  5. plutoed: To be unceremoniously dumped or relegated to a lower position without an adequate reason or explanation.
  6. prairie dogging: A modern office phenomenon. Occurs when workers simultaneously pop their heads up out of their cubicles to see what’s going on.
  7. carbon-based error: Error caused by a human, not a computer (which we assume would be a silicon-based error).
  8. menoporsche: Male menopause. Symptoms include a sudden lack of energy, crankiness and the overpowering urge to buy a Porsche.
  9. adminisphere: The upper levels of management where big, impractical, and counterproductive decisions are made.
  10. deja poo: The feeling that you’ve stepped in this bull before.
  11. bobbleheading: The mass nod of agreement by participants in a meeting to comments made by the boss even though most have no idea what he/she just said.
  12. ringtone rage: The violent response by cube mates after hearing your annoying cell phone ringtone for the 15th time.
  13. muffin top: The unsightly roll of flesh that spills over the waist of a pair of too-tight

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