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Office Lingo in the Age of the Internet

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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
A 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.