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."
>>> >
>