[Fwd: buzzword bingo...]

Hehe. I normally don't forward stuff like this, but some of these are too
good not to share...

Jason Palm wrote:

> 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, poops over everything and
> then leaves.
>
> 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 head count, leaving
> the brass with clean hands.
>
> CLM
> Career Limiting Move - Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised
> activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a
> serious CLM. (Also known as CLB - Career Limiting Behavior)
>
> 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 document could not be located. "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 heads pop up over the walls to see
> what's going on.
>
> Assmosis
> The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement
> by kissing up to the boss.