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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR> <BR> ASSMOSIS - The process
by which some people seem to absorb <BR> success and advancement by kissing
up to the boss.<BR> <BR> BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group
discussing why a <BR> deadline was missed or a project failed and who was
responsible.<BR> <BR> SEAGULL MANAGER - A manager, who
flies in, makes a lot of <BR> noise, craps all over everything, and then
leaves.<BR> <BR> SALMON DAY - The experience of spending an entire
day swimming <BR> upstream only to get screwed and die in the
end.<BR> <BR> IRRITAINMENT - Entertainment and media spectacles that
are <BR> annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching
them. <BR> The O.J. Simpson trials were a prime
example.<BR> <BR> CHAINSAW CONSULTANT - An outside expert brought in
to reduce <BR> the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean
hands.<BR> <BR> CAREER LIMITING MOVE (CLM) - Used among microserfs to
describe <BR> an ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she
is <BR> within earshot is a serious CLM.<BR> <BR> ADMINISPHERE -
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just <BR> above the rank and
file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere <BR> are often profoundly
inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems <BR> they were designed to
solve.<BR> <BR> FLIGHT RISK - Used to describe employees who are
suspected of <BR> planning to leave the company or department
soon.<BR> <BR> 404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web
error <BR> message "404-URL Not Found," meaning that the requested
web page <BR> could not be located. Used as in: "Don't bother asking
him...he's <BR> 404 man!"<BR> <BR> GENERICA - Features of the
American landscape that are exactly <BR> the same no matter where one is,
such as fast food joints, strip <BR> malls, subdivision. Used as in: "We
were so lost in Generica, that <BR> I forgot what city we were
in!"<BR> <BR> OHNO-SECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which
you realize <BR> that you've just made a REAL BIG
mistake.<BR> <BR> PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking
the crap out of <BR> an electronic device to get it to work
again.<BR> <BR> UMFRIEND - A sexual relation of dubious standing or a
concealed <BR> intimate relationship, as in, "This is Dylan,
my...um...um...friend."<BR> <BR> BODY NAZI - Hard-core exercise and
weightlifting fanatics who <BR> look down on anyone who doesn't work out
obsessively.<BR> <BR> CUBE FARM - An office filled with
cubicles.<BR> <BR> IDEA HAMSTERS - People who always seem to have
their idea generators <BR> running.<BR> <BR> MOUSE POTATO - The
on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
<BR> potato.<BR> <BR> PRAIRIE DOGGING - When someone yells or
drops something loudly in <BR> a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over
the walls to see what's <BR> going on.<BR> <BR>
SITCOMS - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one <BR> of
them stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for "Single
<BR> Income, Two Children, and an Oppressive Mortgage."<BR> <BR>
STARTER MARRIAGE - A short-lived, first marriage that ends in divorce
<BR> with no kids, no property, and no regrets.<BR> <BR> STRESS
PUPPY - A person who seem's to thrive on being stressed out <BR> and
whiny.<BR> <BR> SWIPED OUT - An ATM or credit card that has been
rendered useless <BR> because the magnetic strip is worn away from
extensive use.<BR> <BR> ALPHA GEEK - The most knowledgeable,
technically proficient person <BR> in an office or work
group.<BR> <BR> G.O.O.D. JOB - a "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying
job people <BR> take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will
quit just as <BR> soon as they are solvent again.<BR> <BR>
YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS - The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATM's
<BR> everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal,
<BR> i.e., "We owe $8.00 each, but all anybody's got are yuppie food
<BR> stamps."</DIV>
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