Generation X Office Lingo

BLAMESTORMING- sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline
was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

BODY NAZI - 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.