S.KRAUSE

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."

Uninstalled

euphemism for being fired

Xerox subsidy

euphemism for swiping free photocopies from a workplace