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Adminisphere The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. * Noted: Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Assmosis The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss.
Blamestorming Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Career-minded Female Applicants must be childless (and remain that way).
Career Limiting Move (CLM) 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)
Chainsaw consultant An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.
Competitive salary We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors..
Deadline oriented You'll be six months behind schedule on your first day.
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.'
Duties will vary Anyone in the office can boss you around.
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 NotFound,' 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 'cubefarm' (an office full of cubicles) and everyone's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
Salmon day The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
Seagull Manager A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits all over everything and then leaves.
Some overtime required Some time each night and some time each weekend.
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