Tuesday, December 04, 2012

OFFICE LANGUAGE...

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 all over everything and
then leaves.


ADMINISPHERE:
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file.
Decisions that fall from the 0 adminisphere are often profoundly
inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.


FLIGHT RISK:
Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the
company or department soon.


OHNO-SECOND:
That minuscule fraction of time in which realize that you've just made a BIG
mistake.
Like making the selection that reformats your hard drive.


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