Classification terms - 02/21/02 08:34 PM
This just into my e-mail inbox, thought you all might enjoy some new words to put into every day language!
New terms to go with your classification of people...
* BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
* PRAIRIE DOGGING - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a"cube farm" (an office full of cubicles) and everyone's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
* TOURISTS - People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists."
* TREEWARE - Printed computer software/hardware documentation.
* CLM (Career Limiting Move) - Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM. (Also known as CEB - Career Ending Behavior)
* OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (See CLM)
* ADMINISPHERE - The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the admini- sphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
* DILBERTED - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the engineer in the job-from-hell comic strip character. "I've been dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."
* SEAGULL MANAGER - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, poops on everything, and then leaves.
* SALMON WEEK - The experience of spending an entire week swimming upstream only to die, and someone else get the benefit.
* 404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't bother asking him... he's 404, man."
* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking an electronic device *just right* to get it to work again.
New terms to go with your classification of people...
* BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
* PRAIRIE DOGGING - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a"cube farm" (an office full of cubicles) and everyone's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
* TOURISTS - People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists."
* TREEWARE - Printed computer software/hardware documentation.
* CLM (Career Limiting Move) - Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM. (Also known as CEB - Career Ending Behavior)
* OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (See CLM)
* ADMINISPHERE - The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the admini- sphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
* DILBERTED - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the engineer in the job-from-hell comic strip character. "I've been dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."
* SEAGULL MANAGER - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, poops on everything, and then leaves.
* SALMON WEEK - The experience of spending an entire week swimming upstream only to die, and someone else get the benefit.
* 404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't bother asking him... he's 404, man."
* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking an electronic device *just right* to get it to work again.