Buzz Words for 2003

> WORDS FOR 2003

>

> > 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, craps

> on everything, and 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.

>

> 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.

>

> STRESS PUPPY:

> A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out

> and whiny.

>

> XEROX SUBSIDY:

> Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's

> workplace.

>

> 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.

>

> OHNOSECOND:

> That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize

> that you've just made a

> really BIG mistake.

[funnygirl_rn]

Heehee!

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

LOVE these !!!

ESPECIALLY the Seagull Mgr., Assmosis (too funny) and Salmon Day !

[debbyed]

Percussive Maintenance...What a fine art indeed

[Rapheal]

Oh these are too good!!!!!

[bedpan]

:chuckle

Yup - these were just C&P'd to send out to my e-mail list !!!

:chuckle

[altomga, ADN, BSN, MSN, DNP, RN, APRN]

love it...........totally!!!

[krispynurse]

HeeHeeHeeHeeHawHawHawHawHooHooHooHoo:D :D :roll :roll :roll Good one!!!

[nowplayingEDRN]

I happen to have a Seagull manager...... hehehehehehehe :chuckle