Generation X Office Lingo
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Blamestorming |
Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. |
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Body Nazis |
Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively. |
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Cube Farm |
An office filled with cubicles. |
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Ego Surfing |
Scanning the Net, databases, print media and so on, looking for references to one's own name. |
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Elvis Year |
The peak year of something's or someone's popularity. "Barney the Dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993." |
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404 |
Someone who's clueless. "Don't bother asking him; he's 404." From the WWW error message "404 Not Found" |
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Idea Hamsters |
People who always seem to have their idea generators running. |
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Keyboard Plaque |
The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. |
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Mouse Potato |
The online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. |
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Ohnosecond |
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a big mistake. |
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Perot |
To quit unexpectedly, as in "My cellular phone just perot'ed." |
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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 |
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SITCOMs |
What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for "Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage." |
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Squirt the Bird |
To transmit a signal to a satellite. |
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Starter Marriage |
A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets. |
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Stress Puppy |
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. |
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Swiped Out |
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. |
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Tourists |
People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. |
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Treeware |
Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material. |
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Uninstalled |
Euphemism for being fired. |
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Xerox Subsidy |
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace. |