Vocabulary 101

[littlefranciscan]

blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible. This one will be particularly valuable to those of you who have projects going right now.

chainsaw consultant: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.

clm: Short lingo for "career limiting move". Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while she is within earshot is a serious clm. (Related to clb, "career limiting behavior".)

dilberted: To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. For example, "I've been Dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."

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

ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time it takes to realize that you've just made a big mistake. (See also clm.)

percussive maintenance: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it working again.

salmon day: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to die in the end. We've had these before --- and will again.

seagull manager: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, poops all over everything then leaves. Another word for consultant.

[TkTech]

nice lol, are we supposed to expand on this list? If so i Have a few.

[littlefranciscan]

HI..yes we are allowed to expand on any forum..I don't see why not..I am just trying to start new threads as the old are getting "old"!