Office Terms

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 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.