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| Blamestorming | sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible |
| Beepilepsy | The brief seizure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence |
| Cube Farm | an office filled with cubicles |
| Prairie Dogging | something loud happens in a cube farm, and heads start popping up over the walls to see what's going on |
| Idea Hamsters | people who always seem to be birthin' new ideas |
| Mouse Potato | the on-line generation's answer to the couch potato |
| CLAM | (Career Limiting Amateur Move) Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a seriousCLAM |
| Ohnosecond | that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big stupid mistake |
| SITCOM | stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage |
| Stress Puppy | a person who always seems to be stressed-out and whiny |
| Tourists | those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their obs -- "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists." |
| Dilberted | To be exploited and oppressed by your boss |
| World Wide Wait | The real meaning of WWW |
| CGI Joe | A hard-core CGI programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic toy |
| Glazing | Sleeping with your eyes open |
| Dead Tree Edition | The paper version of a publication |
| Open-Collar Workers | People who work at home or telecommute |
| Squirt The Bird | To transmit a signal up to a satellite |
| Cobweb Site | A dead web page that hasn't been updated for a long time |
| Keyboard Plaque | The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards |
| Alpha Geek | The most knowledgeable geek |
| Adminisphere | Where all of the dumb decisions come from that are profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve |
| Gray Matter | Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms looking to appear more reputable and established |
| Salmon Day | The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end |
| Chainsaw Consultant | an outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands |
| 404 | someone who is clueless, from the error message "404 -- URL Not Found", meaning the requested document couldn't be located. "Don't bother asking him, he's 404." |
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