Business Slang

#slang Crapplet A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!" Categories: slang

#slang Blamestorming A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible. Categories: slang

#slang Treeware Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material. Categories: slang

#slang Glazing Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. "Didn't he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?" Categories: Glazing slang

#slang GOOD job A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again. Categories: slang

#slang Graybar Land The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen). "That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour." Categories: slang

#slang Egosurfing Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one's own name. Categories: slang

#slang Ohnosecond That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you've just made a terrible error. Categories: slang

#slang Generica Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in "we were so lost in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was". Categories: slang

#slang Chips and Salsa Chips = hardware, salsa = software. "First we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa." Categories: slang

#slang Dead Tree Edition The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms. Categories: slang

#slang Dilberted To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. "Damn, I've been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week." Categories: slang

#slang Gray Matter Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established. Categories: slang

#slang Adminisphere The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant. Categories: slang

#slang Yuppie Food Coupons Twenty dollar bills from an ATM. Categories: slang

#slang Bookmark To take note of a person for future reference. "After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him." Categories: slang

#slang CGI Joe A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure. Categories: slang

#slang Cube Farm An office filled with cubicles. Categories: slang

#slang Irritainment Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example. Categories: slang

#slang Percussive Maintenance The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. Categories: slang

#slang WOOFYS Well Off Older Folks. Fred's parents made great financial decisions early in life, causing them to become woofy's. They are currently spending Fred's inheritance, causing Fred to have ballistic coniptions. Categories: slang

#slang Elvis Year The peak year of popularity as in "1993 was Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year" Categories: slang

#slang Prairie Dogging When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what's going on. Categories: slang

#slang Stress Puppy A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny. Categories: slang

#slang Flight Risk Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon. Categories: slang