{"id":1625,"date":"2009-06-15T14:36:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2009-06-15T14:36:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T12:36:25","slug":"new-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/15\/new-words\/","title":{"rendered":"New words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TESTICULATING &#8211; Waving your arms around and talking b*llocks.<\/p>\n<p>BLAMESTORMING &#8211; Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible<\/p>\n<p>SEAGULL MANAGER &#8211; A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.<\/p>\n<p>ASSMOSIS &#8211; The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.<\/p>\n<p>SALMON DAY &#8211; The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.<\/p>\n<p>CUBE FARM &#8211; An office filled with cubicles.<\/p>\n<p>PRAIRIE DOGGING &#8211; When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people&#8217;s heads pop up over the walls to see that&#8217;s going on.<br \/>\n(This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)<\/p>\n<p>MOUSE POTATO &#8211; The on-line, wired generation&#8217;s answer to the couch potato.<\/p>\n<p>SITCOMs &#8211; Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a &#8220;home business&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>STRESS PUPPY &#8211; A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.<\/p>\n<p>PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE &#8211; The fine art of whacking the cr*p out of an electronic device to get it to work again.<\/p>\n<p>ADMINISPHERE &#8211; The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the &#8220;adminisphere&#8221; are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded &#8220;administrivia&#8221; needless paperwork and processes.<\/p>\n<p>404 &#8211; Someone who&#8217;s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message &#8220;404 Not Found,&#8221; meaning that the requested document could not be located.<\/p>\n<p>OHNOSECOND &#8211; That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you&#8217;ve just made a BIG mistake (e. g you&#8217;ve hit &#8216;reply all&#8217;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TESTICULATING &#8211; Waving your arms around and talking b*llocks. BLAMESTORMING &#8211; Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible SEAGULL MANAGER &#8211; A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. ASSMOSIS &#8211; The process by which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}