*

...just another girl who costarred?
they're gonna wrap you up in cornsilk.
they're gonna cry like you were spilled milk.
-rhett miller

2004-01-296:52 p.m.

> Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:

>

> 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

> on everything, then leaves.

>

> ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and

> advancement by kissing 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 in the end.

>

> 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 what's

> going on.

>

> 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.

>

> STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and

> whiney.

>

> SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because

> the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

>

> XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's

> workplace.

>

> IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but

> you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were

> a prime example.

>

> PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an

> electronic device to get it to work again.

>

> 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.

>

> GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the

> same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls,

> subdivisions,

etc.

>

> OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that

> you've just made a BIG mistake.

>

> WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.

>

bout to give this girl a shout

>>back in the day>>
>>i'm not a kid anymore>>
>>but somedays i sit & wish i was a kid again>>

"i don't want the world, i just want your half..."
-they might be giants

>>>leave your mark on me / [?uestbook]>>>

* me love you long time *
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