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I've been accused of using words that normal people just don't understand. Personally, I think it's a good think to have to stretch your vocabulary. There are a lot times where I have to ask someone to stop and define the word they just used. Nothing wrong with that really. While I don't think it's polite to purposefully talk over someone's head I also don't like the idea of having to dumb-down communication to the lowest common denominator.
Anyway, here are some definitions to help you along the way. Although I've never heard anyone actually USE many of these, they are quite humorous.
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404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message, "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
ADMINISHPERE: The organizational layers beginning just above the core staff. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
ALPHA GEEK: The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group.
BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
CLM - CAREER LIMITING MOVE: Used to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
DECEPTACON: A person suspected of being a liar, or untruthful.
DECRUITED: Euphemism for being fired. Heard on the voice-mail of a vice president at a downsizing computer firm: "You have reached the number of a decruited Vice President. Please dial our main number and ask the operator for assistance.
FLIGHT RISK: Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
GUESSTIMATE: The basis for most professional quotes. Somewhere between guess and estimate
IDEA HAMSTERS: People who always seem to have their idea generator running.
MAC-THING: The word that a PC Wintel-using HTML programming geek uses to try and disguise his sloppy non-cross-platform programming skills. Usually said with an air of indignance.
MACGYVERIZE: Ingenious - for inventions contrived in desperate situations (TV's "MacGyver.")
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
OHNOSECOND: An ohnosecond is that very short moment in time during which you realize that you have pressed the wrong key and deleted hours, days, or weeks of work.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
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.
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
TREEWARE: Printouts, books, documentation and other information media made from pulped dead trees by a tree-killer.
UMFRIEND: A personal relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship, as in "This is Dylan, my ... um ... friend."
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for making free photocopies at one's workplace.
New Vocabulary
You are Civilian Calvin!
You don't get to travel much outside your neighborhood, but you still manage to get in plenty of trouble. When you're not acting up, you like to wax philosophical.