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A friend of mine recently sent me some new words and I wanted to share them with you.  They apply both to life and business, some of them are humorous and some just downright tragically truthful:

* SEAGULL MANAGER:

A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and Then leaves.

* ASSMOSIS:

The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

* SALMON DAY:

The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

* 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. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)

* SITCOMs:

Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a ‘home business’.

* SINBAD:  Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.

* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:

The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

* ADMINISPHERE:

The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the ‘adminisphere’ are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded ‘administrivia’ – needless paperwork and processes.

* 404:

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

* OH – NO SECOND:

That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just Made a BIG mistake (e.g. you’ve hit ‘reply all’).

* JOHNNY-NO-STARS:

A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The ‘no-stars’ comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.

* MONKEY BATH:   A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: ‘Oo! Oo! Oo!
Aa! Aa! Aa!’.

If any of these new phrases ring true with you, leave me a comment so we can talk about it,

Mark Edward Brown

P.S.  I added a new video that should cause some deep thinking!