Generation X

  • 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 weight-lifting 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 tourists."

  • Uninstalled - euphemism for being fired

  • Xerox subsidy - euphemism for swiping free photocopies from a workplace


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