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 head count, 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.