Human Resources 101

• 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 on everything, and then leaves.
• ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
• 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.
• CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.
• STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.
• XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
• PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
• ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational 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.

I’m not sure of the origin of the humour piece. Are there any other new words or expressions we can add to a workplace vocabulary?