| 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.
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 weightlifting 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.
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 just tourists."
Uninstalled: euphemism for being fired
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