New words around the office!

Need some new words to use around the office?  Try these...your coworkers will get a kick out them!

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 all over everything and
then leaves.

Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving
the brass with clean hands.

CLM - Career Limiting Move - Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.

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

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."

Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or
department soon.

404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found", meaning
that the requested documentation could not be located. "Don't bother asking him...he's 404, man."

Generica - Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such
as fast food joints, strip malls and subdivisions, as in "We were so lost in generica, I forgot what city
we were in."

Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've made a BIG mistake.

Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

Umfriend - A relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship, as in "This is
Sue, my ... um ... friend."