> Blamestorming - sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline

> was missed or a project failed and who was responsible

>

> 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."

>