Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 23:58:54 -0700

From: Kim & Rima McKinzey rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET

Subject: Office stuff (fwd)



I've seen several of these before, but for those of you who may not have,

some are really good. I think I particularly like the Ohnosecond. Rima



OFFICE LINGO IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET



Blamestorming - sitting around in a group discussing why a

deadline

was missed or a project failed and who was responsible



Body Nazis - hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who

look

down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively



Chainsaw consultant - an outside expert brought in to reduce

the

employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands



Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles



Ego surfing - scanning the Net, databases, print media, and so

on,

looking for references to one's own name



Elvis year - the peak year of something's popularity -- Barney

the

dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993.



404 - someone who is clueless, from the World Wide Web error

message

"404 Not Found", meaning the requested document couldn't be

located

-- Don't bother asking him, he's 404.



Idea hamsters - people who always seem to have their idea

generators

running



Mouse potato - the on-line generation's answer to the couch

potato



Ohnosecond - that minuscule fraction of time in which you

realize

you've just made a big mistake



Prairie dogging - something loud happens in a cube farm, and

people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on



SITCOM - stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive

Mortgage



Stress puppy - a person who thrives on being stressed-out and

whiny



Tourists - those who take training classes just to take a

vacation

from their jobs -- "We had three serious students in the class;

the

rest were tourists."