Subject: Vocabulary Building
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 07:42:09 EST
"Vocabulary Building"
404 - Someone who's clueless. From the
World Wide Web error message "404 Not
Found," meaning that the requested document
could not be located. Used as in: "Don't
bother asking him ... he's 404 man."
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.
ALPHA GEEK: The most knowledgeable,
technically proficient person in an office or
work group.
ASSMOSIS - The process by which some
people seem to absorb success and
advancement by kissing up to the boss.
BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group
discussing why a deadline was missed or a
project failed and who was responsible.
DILBERTED - To be exploited and oppressed
by your boss. Derived from the experiences of
Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character.
"I've been dilberted again. The old man
revised the specs for the fourth time this week."
IDEA HAMSTERS: People who always seem
to have their idea generators running.
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