9/23/2005
Office Slang 2005
Some of my personal favorites from www.officeslang.com.
Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.”
Beepilepsy - The brief siezure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
Blamestorming - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Uninstalled - Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment.
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Filed by Ken at 10:40 pm under General
Beepilepsy
I have an old friend who used to work in the pager repair division of a local ILEC. He told me once he eas thinking of starting a new business to make use of the “vibrator” functiopn of the pagers. With the right “accessory” he thought there was a busiones to be had marketing them to working women and include an offer to have them paged at a time of their choosing