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Erlkönig: jargon-notyet.shtmlBlamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible. 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. |