New words for Roget




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 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.

XEROX SUBSIDY - Euphemism for swiping 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 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')

WOOFies - Well Off Older Folk.

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



New words for Roget

Thesaurus update for office workers

Know anything about this? Email us
Comments
rogem002rogem002 (38 days ago)
Hehe! Genius!
Spam or offensive?


Link to this page
Tags:  language, words
Collections:  At Work
Newsletter: Sign up
Keep Bore Me fresh: Contribute
Report fault
MEMBERS
Create, upload, share
Log in  |  Register
Add to my site   ?
Add this to:
Digg | Furl | Reddit
Stumble | Del.icio.us Facebook
RELATED
High fireman
Marijuana farm blaze gets firefighter hysterical
Cop saves suicidal jumper
Brazilian police action man saves life
Bulgarian Music Idol - Ken Lee
Valentina Hasan performs Mariah Carey's cover of the song...
Ben Kingsley rants
Snow in Africa? Let Ben explain in character as Don Logan...
SAS training and weapons
Hostage situation scenario examined
My Cubicle
Beautiful song with a blunt message
The taxman replies
Inland Revenue proves the customer is not always right
Job for a man
Hand job

Contact | Contributions | Newsletter | Advertise | Press | DMCA | Features | Sitemap | Archive | RSS | Toolbar