Well...they may not be real words, but they should be!

Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:

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

SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message"404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the s**t out of an electronic device to get it to work again.


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CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

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.

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