Generation X Terms
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 - 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.
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