New Office Speek

           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.

           Seagull Manager
           A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits over
           everything and then leaves.

           Blowing Your Buffer
           Losing your train of thought.

           Salmon Day
           The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream
           only to get screwed and die in the end.

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

           Career-Limiting Move  (CLM)
           Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a
           serious CLM.

           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”.  Example,  “Don’t bother
           asking him...he’s 404, man.”

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

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

           Prairie Dogging
           When someone yells or drops something loudly in a “cube
           farm” (an office full of cubicles) and everyone’s head pops up
           over the walls to see what’s going on.

           Umfriend
           A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed
           intimate relationship, as in “This is Jill,  my...um...friend.”