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New Workplace Slangs One Has to Know
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1. BLAMESTORMING:
>> Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
>> A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3. CUBE FARM:
>> An office filled with cubicles.

4. PRAIRIE DOGGING:
>> When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

5. SITCOM:
>> Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage ==> situations yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

6. SWIPEOUT:
>> An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

7. 404:
>> Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found", meaning that requested site could not be located.

8. OHNOSECOND:
>> That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).

9. WOOFS:
>> Well-Off Older Folks.

Posted on: 2007/3/19 0:35
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i like the first one Blamestorming, haha,笑死我啦.
and yuppies, what r yuppies at all? like bohemias?

Posted on: 2007/3/19 10:19
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"Young Urban Professional" => "YUP" => "yuppie"
- The term "yuppie" was popularized during the 1980s to describe young career people having relatively high incomes and education, seeking instant success and gratification, often beyond their financial means.

Once yuppie was coined, other initialisms followed: buppie (1986) identified a black yuppie, suppie (1987) a Southern one, yuca (1988) a Cuban-American (with a play on the name of the yucca plant). There was even skippie (1987), a school kid with income and purchasing power.

"Bourgeois Bohemian" ==> "Bobo"
- This is David Brooks' term for the 1990s' descendants of the yuppies in his book <Bobos in Paradise>. Often of the corporate upper-middle to upper class, Bobos rarely oppose mainstream society, claim highly tolerant views of others, buy lots of expensive and exotic items, and believe American society to be meritocratic.
Bobo is often used in place of the word yuppie, which has usually negative connotations. In fact, even Brooks uses yuppie in a negative sense throughout his book.

[Note: A Bobo is a person who combines affluence and a successful career with a preference for countercultural ideas and artifacts. Bobos talk like hippies but walk like yuppies, decrying materialism while indulging in all manner of luxuries."]

Posted on: 2007/3/23 2:15
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Hello 大美人

Looks like Kathy has to stop addressing me Bo Bo Geo liao!

cc. Kathy

Posted on: 2007/3/23 10:00
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