Some of these are so accurate and funny. Just thought I'd share. My old boss was famous for "crop dusting", esp. on Fridays when we'd order Chinese.

INNER-OFFICE VOCABULARY :


1. BLAMESTORMING
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2.SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, c r a p s on everything, and then leaves.

3.SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

4. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.

5.PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

6.STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

7.XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

8. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the c r a p out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

9. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

10.OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).

11. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.

An oldie, but still funny.